mccarthy.hcoop.net is our first Debian Jessie VM, and is intended to run mail services and the member portal.

1. The Ugly

ServerDeleuze decided to start dying one day so a few evils were committed in moving services.

1.1. Exim

Installed exim4-daemon-heavy procmail spf-tools-perl, merged deleuze's config onto the current Debian base exim4 config. No config package has been created. History is lost from deleuze at the moment (diff -ur ...).

Added /etc/ferm/service.d/...

1.1.1. Exim Notes

Blockers:

• WTF is up with conf.d/30_exim4_examples hcoop_plain + hcoop_login drivers? Are we using sasldaemon for auth?!

  • Running on deleuze with args: saslauthd -a pam -c -n 5

  • account sufficient      pam_unix.so
    account required        pam_ldap.so
    account required        pam_krb5.so debug

  • Can users not in slapd actually not send mail? Doesn't seem like it, I can send mail fine when slapd isn't running.
• Delivery to mailman not on localhost does not work. Need a condition for checking if we are the mailman host, and using something like remote_smtp_smarthost to relay to the mailman host if needed (which is for now with deleuze).

Things that need review in the config:

• dc_other_hostnames, dc_relay_nets, unix_domains look like they could be unified, simplifying the config

• DomTool overrides local_domains, and we replace local_domains with unix_domains almost everywhere. domtool should probably generate another domainlist, and we should modify the few places where we need to check user hosted domains (idea for a descriptive name: hosted_domains).

• I think we're doing sender verification wrong

• Do we want to check CHECK_RCPT_DOMAIN_DNSBLS in addition to IP_DNSBLS?

• Load limits do not appear to cause major problems, but review them because they were made for when deleuze was seriously overloaded
  • Similarly, retry/30_exim4_config has weird retry times because afs used to time out on deleuze from overloaded. Revisit.

Misc Changes from Debian:

• /etc/mailname to hcoop.net

• We drop rather than warn for domains in CHECK_RCPT_IP_DNSBLS

Major changes of note from deleuze:

• SPF checking will deny and not just warn
• DKIM checking is on

2. Setup Issues

• Fix fail2ban
  • ferm resets rules ever time it reloads. Add a ferm hook to reload fail2ban on firewall reload

• sudo $command > file does not work, piping does however. Probably a new sudo option to detect output redirection and squelch output.

• systemd work:
  • domtool unit files seem to work OK so far
  • ferm is likely starting earlier than it should be, and may fail if the generated config references any pts users

  • dnscache-run starts very late by virtue of daemontools starting late. Either hack daemontools to be WantedBy=nss-lookup.target (systemd equiv of LSB $named service), or make dnscache-run a native systemd service.

    • Hacked momentarily by adding Google DNS servers as backups

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