[Server-admins] CrossWire Server

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Dear CrossWire Server Admins (or potential admins),

I created this group a while ago as a place for us who have expressed 
willingness to own components on the CrossWire server (or those who are 
really good at admin and I would like to own components on the server) 
to discuss server admin stuff.  If you really would not like to be on 
this list, please unsub in the standard way.

CrossWire's server configuration currently sucks.

There are a number of things which don't work right and I'll list a few
here and more when I think of them.

o    when we get mediawiki updates from our occasional yum update, the 
wiki stops working (like right now).

o    mailman does not send admins admin notices

o    mailman constantly unsubs me because of excessive bounces

o    to get this new list to actually work, I had to find and fix this 
error in /var/log/exim/main.log

2009-07-25 17:14:52 H=localhost.extremezone.com (www.crosswire.org) 
[127.0.0.1] sender verify fail for 
<server-admins-bounces at www.crosswire.org>: Unknown user
2009-07-25 17:14:52 H=localhost.extremezone.com (www.crosswire.org) 
[127.0.0.1] F=<server-admins-bounces at www.crosswire.org> rejected RCPT 
<jmarsden at fastmail.fm>: Sender verify failed

by adding an entry in /etc/aliases
server-admins-bounces: scribe

Though there are not other aliases like this for any other list.

o    our smtp server seems to get bogged down with spam or something and 
rejects valid mail.  Got this response yesterday and have had people ask 
me in the past if my mail account at crosswire was still valid because 
of similar events.

<scribe at crosswire.org>: 451 Timeout trying verify RCPT
(scribe at crosswire.org) for domain (crosswire.org)

I'm not sure if the smtp issues have anything to do with the mailman 
issues, but I suppose they might.

We are currently using exim at the suggestion of Daniel Glassey, which 
has worked well in the past, but if someone wants to own this, I concede 
to switch to whichever smtp daemon they are willing to administrate.

Please consider helping.  I so appreciate all the past and current
commitment we have.

     -Troy.