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[TPerry]

Not worth the hassle to me. I'd rather get my servers recognized as valid mail servers by gmail/hotmail/etc. and use them. Gives me a little more control and I'm not dependent on their being up (and you and I both know that gmail has had outtages).

 

[Floren]

Never had an issue with Google Apps in 7 years.

 

[TPerry]

Never had an issue with Google Apps in 7 years.

You've been lucky
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...other_Google_services_hit_by_outage_on_Friday
http://downrightnow.com/gmail
http://downdetector.com/status/gmail

 

[MattW]

@Tracy Perry, I can grant sudo to an user to only restart mysqld, not necesarily the hole root access. But ya, we both get the idea, is bad. Plus is a lot easier to gain access through a web interface, compared to an SSH terminal... That day might come when you try to login into your "secure panel" and everything is gone...

This is what we do at work:

[mworthington@air-inocapps2 ~]$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for mworthington on this host:
    requiretty, !visiblepw, always_set_home, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR LS_COLORS", env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE", env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION
    LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES", env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE", env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY", secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin

User mworthington may run the following commands on this host:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/su - inocapps, (ALL) /bin/su - mysql, (ALL) /bin/more /var/log/maillog, (ALL) /sbin/service mysql start, (ALL) /sbin/service mysql status, (ALL) /sbin/service mysql stop, (ALL) /sbin/service mysql condrestart,
    (ALL) /sbin/service httpd start, (ALL) /sbin/service httpd status, (ALL) /sbin/service httpd stop, (ALL) /sbin/service httpd condrestart, (ALL) /bin/vi /etc/my.cnf, (ALL) /bin/vi /etc/php.ini, (ALL) /bin/vi
    /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, (ALL) /bin/vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf, (ALL) /sbin/service syslog-ng stop, (ALL) /sbin/service syslog-ng start, (ALL) /sbin/service syslog-ng restart, (ALL) /sbin/service syslog status, (ALL) /bin/vi
    /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf

 

[TPerry]

This is what we do at work:

Apparently they have written several scripts that the users are allowed via sudo to run (with admin priv's). I haven't looked at it much more carefully so far as I really have no desire to use it.



EDIT:
As far as it goes... it doesn't look to bad. I just created a server using it (with a user only account that I created) at test.servinglinux.com

 

[Floren]

That green does not hurt your eyes?
I always stick with white background and black text...

 

[TPerry]

That green does not hurt your eyes?
I always stick with white background and black text...

Nope..makes it so I don't stare at it to long.
Actually, I keep different color ones open for the different servers I'm working on at the time.

 

[MattW]

That green does not hurt your eyes?
I always stick with white background and black text...

I'm opposite, black background for me:

 

[Floren]

Right there, those colors kill my eyes @MattW
For some reason, white background was always easy for my eyes... I switched to black when I took this screen, it looked better OK I'm going to bed, I worked all night to patch OpenSSL and publish the info...


https://www.axivo.com/resources/disable-yum-repository.12/

 

[rdn]

Only if you were lucky enough to get in for your domains before they shut off the free... otherwise it's something like $15 a month per user, and with 14 active domains that adds up pretty quick.
I'd just as soon use my own mail server(s) to do it with. I'm probably going to have to end up having the myBB postfix relay to another VPS for mail services. I posted a request for feedback over there - but if it's like normal it will be 2 months before anyone knowledgable replies.

Use mandrill.

 

[Adam Howard]

Apparently they have written several scripts that the users are allowed via sudo to run (with admin priv's). I haven't looked at it much more carefully so far as I really have no desire to use it.

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EDIT:
As far as it goes... it doesn't look to bad. I just created a server using it (with a user only account that I created) at test.servinglinux.com

No different than cPanel, Plesk, or Direct Admin.... ALL control panel's run scripts, con jobs, ect... ect... Using root or sudo.

cPanel
Direct Admin
Plesk

Those being the top 3 used for commercial industry standards in hosting providers, do indeed use some level of root or sudo (root) privileges to execute commands (there is no way around it). Yet function acceptably without issue (one of the reason why they are industry standards in hosting commercially)

 

[TPerry]

Use mandrill.

See earlier reply. Have no desire to use an outside service as I want the CIDR range to become an accepted delivery setup. Currently MS blocks the entire /24 range (for no reason as none of them are black listed that I could find).

 

[eberkund]

I don't know why everyone is bashing on panels in this thread. A panel is really the only option if you want manage an email server or allow clients to change basic options themselves.

 

[m1ne]

I don't know why everyone is bashing on panels in this thread. A panel is really the only option if you want manage an email server or allow clients to change basic options themselves.

This.
Though my choice is Ajenti for a free option.

 

[rdn]

if you want manage an email server

For email server, this is what I'm using
http://mailinabox.email/