postfixadmin-devel

[Postfixadmin-devel] Fwd: Re: Fwd: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

FYI: This is the reply to a mail Mischa forwarded to me. 
Sergey permitted to send it to the mailinglist and will also subscribe 
here.

Maybe we should have some type of meta-documentation ("how to contact 
us" etc.) - see below

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Subject: Re: Fwd: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)
Date: Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007
From: Christian Boltz <pos...@cb...>
To: Mischa Peters <mi...@hi...>, se...@rs...

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007 schrieb Mischa Peters:
> Would you be so kind to help this guy out. ;)

Of course ;-)

First question: Sergey, is it OK for you if I forward your mail (and 
future mails) to the postfixadmin-devel mailinglist?
(I'll wait for your OK before doing it)

> Begin forwarded message:
> > From: Sergey Litvinenko <se...@rs...>
> > Date: October 03, 2007 22:42:07GMT+02:00
> > To: Mischa Peters <mi...@hi...>
> > Subject: Re: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)

> > I've tried to search email of GingerDog and didn't found it :(
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not familiar with Sourceforge community, and the
> > unability to
> > contact active developers of the Postfixadmin frustrates me.

Two hints about contacting people on Sourceforge:
Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin and
- click the name of any project admin or developer. A mail address is 
  offered - its always   <username>@users.sourceforge.net
- if you click the mail address, there's also a contact form

However I know that the Sourceforge interface can be confusing 
sometimes ;-)

> > I'm also currently developing add-ons for PostfixAdmin such as use
> > of restriction classes of the Postfix, status monitoring, maillog
> > checks, antispam features involvement and so on... I think, all
> > these would be of certain interest for others.

Yes, sounds interesting. You can submit patches in the tracker (also on 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin) or send them to the 
postfixadmin-devel mailinglist.

If you provide enough good patches, we can also add you as developer 
with direct SVN access.

> >>> I've ran a couple of installations of postfixadmin and find it
> >>> very useful, thank you!
> >>>
> >>> however, I need to make some minor adjustments in several scripts
> >>> to make it working with the latest PostgreSQL.

Which version do you use? 2.1 or the latest SVN version?

(Unfortunately I'm using MySQL here, but there's someone on the 
mailinglist who can help with pgsql.)

> >>> also, I have a more adequate translation file for russian
> >>> language, 

I don't understand russian, but you can still send it ;-)
(patch against SVN version preferred)

> >>> and more handy admin_menu.tpl. 

Again: Patches welcome ;-)

> >>> I would like to share this with developers of the Postfixadmin,
> >>> whom to contact?

The best way is to subscribe to postfixadmin-devel. You can do this on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/postfixadmin-devel

As an alternative, you can also post to the forum on 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin or enter bugs and patches 
in the tracker there.

> >>> Also, script http://domain.tld/postfixadmin/admin/backup.php
> >>> sends
> >>> DEBUG INFORMATION:
> >>> Invalid query: ERROR: syntax error at or near "CREATE" LINE 1:
> >>> SHOW CREATE
> >>> TABLE admin ^
> >>>
> >>> what for this script is intended?? i've found nothing about it on
> >>> FAQ :(

As Mischa already said: Database backup, currently only for MySQL.


I'm looking forward for your contributions to Postfixadmin :-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
Now I hope the best for my seven 1.44MB disks, oh yes, very old ...
and I feel about 8 years younger by copying files to disks.
[Thomas Porschberg in opensuse]

Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Fwd: Re: Fwd: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)

[David G. <da...@co...>]

> > > I've tried to search email of GingerDog and didn't found it :(
> > >
> > > Sorry, I'm not familiar with Sourceforge community, and the
> > > unability to
> > > contact active developers of the Postfixadmin frustrates me.
>=20


Drat! That dual identify of David Goodwin and GingerDog! Who is that
masked villian?  :)

(Googling for GingerDog and Postfixadmin works quite well)

>=20
> However I know that the Sourceforge interface can be confusing=20
> sometimes ;-)
>=20

Definately :(

> > > I'm also currently developing add-ons for PostfixAdmin such as use
> > > of restriction classes of the Postfix, status monitoring, maillog
> > > checks, antispam features involvement and so on... I think, all
> > > these would be of certain interest for others.
>=20

Sounds very interesting; I've been meaning to add some sort of
spamassassin integration where either :

a) a unique idenfier is added to the mail body, and users can either click=
=20
on a link or forward the mail to spam@domain to train spamassassin as
appropriate.

or

b) List all recent emails (e.g. the last 7 days worth) allowing users to
say "Yes- that, that that and that were spam".

Where I have Postfixadmin deployed we have the problem that a lot of the
mail from the postfixadmin box is picked up through catch-all addresses
and collected via pop3 by other servers, which themselves talk to
client(s). Getting mail in the right format for spam training is
therefore non-trivial.


> > >>>
> > >>> however, I need to make some minor adjustments in several scripts
> > >>> to make it working with the latest PostgreSQL.
>=20
> Which version do you use? 2.1 or the latest SVN version?
>=20
> (Unfortunately I'm using MySQL here, but there's someone on the=20
> mailinglist who can help with pgsql.)
>=20

I use PostgreSQL - curently 8.1 (i think) (whatever comes with Ubuntu
Edgy).=20

> > >>> also, I have a more adequate translation file for russian
> > >>> language,=20


Excellent

> > >>> and more handy admin_menu.tpl.=20
>=20

I think the menu could change to something like :

'List Virtual'
'List Domains'
'List Admins'
'List Vacations' (?)

and have the related add/edit/remove links in the list-XXX.php
page.

> I'm looking forward for your contributions to Postfixadmin :-)

Ditto

David.

--=20
David Goodwin=20

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]

Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Fwd: Re: Fwd: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 schrieb David Goodwin:
> Sounds very interesting; I've been meaning to add some sort of
> spamassassin integration where either :
>
> a) a unique idenfier is added to the mail body, and users can either
> click on a link or forward the mail to spam@domain to train
> spamassassin as appropriate.

Beware that doing this training (especially if people don't really know 
what they are doing) can make spam detection worse - at least some 
people on the german postfixbuch-users list reported this.

> or
>
> b) List all recent emails (e.g. the last 7 days worth) allowing users
> to say "Yes- that, that that and that were spam".

Sounds like Maya Mailguard. I don't really want to re-invent this 
wheel - if you need this feature, you should use Maya.

> > > >>> and more handy admin_menu.tpl.
>
> I think the menu could change to something like :
>
> 'List Virtual'
> 'List Domains'
> 'List Admins'
> 'List Vacations' (?)
>
> and have the related add/edit/remove links in the list-XXX.php
> page.

Yes. However, I'd vote to add (<ul>- and CSS-based) dropdown menus with 
the "add ...." link.


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
> Can I get some more info from the machine? 'dmesg', 'cat
> /proc/bus/input/devices', etc ...
Sorry, there's no command calles "etc" on my machine... ;-)
[Rasmus Plewe on https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=176022]

Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Fwd: Re: Fwd: postfixadmin with latest PGSQL (8.2.4)

[David G. <da...@co...>]

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>> a) a unique idenfier is added to the mail body, and users can either
>> click on a link or forward the mail to spam@domain to train
>> spamassassin as appropriate.
> 
> Beware that doing this training (especially if people don't really know 
> what they are doing) can make spam detection worse - at least some 
> people on the german postfixbuch-users list reported this.
> 

Yes.. the awkwardness would come in that the identifier would need to be
removed from emails going out of the organisation....

>> or
>>
>> b) List all recent emails (e.g. the last 7 days worth) allowing users
>> to say "Yes- that, that that and that were spam".
> 
> Sounds like Maya Mailguard. I don't really want to re-invent this 
> wheel - if you need this feature, you should use Maya.

Ah. I'll have a look at that. I've not head of it.
( http://www.maiamailguard.com )

> Yes. However, I'd vote to add (<ul>- and CSS-based) dropdown menus with 
> the "add ...." link.
>

Fine by me

David.

- --
David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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