From: Peter Palfrader Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 10:53:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: new mail stuff seems to be dead or at least hibernating for now X-Git-Url: https://git.adam-barratt.org.uk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41ab130d329d547ea0f8d518b9f450f35d465a9d;p=mirror%2Fdsa-wiki.git new mail stuff seems to be dead or at least hibernating for now --- diff --git a/input/hardware-wishlist.creole b/input/hardware-wishlist.creole index 562f2f2..8522fbe 100644 --- a/input/hardware-wishlist.creole +++ b/input/hardware-wishlist.creole @@ -36,32 +36,6 @@ Proposers: * ftpteam/Joerg Jaspert -== new debian mail setup == - -A set of systems that will handle all incoming mail for all debian systems. -Currently our incoming mail handling is on the individual host hosting a -service, i.e. on master.debian.org for @debian.org, on bugs.debian.org for the -bug tracking system, on lists.debian.org for our mailinglists and on several -other systems for their individual, smaller email traffic. - -Centralizing email handling will allow us to maintain our anti-spam measures in -a single point, avoiding duplicate work and hopefully improving our success. - -Requirements: - -* Four or so systems, in at least two different locations, capable of handling - modern anti-spam software. This probably needs a bit of CPU. -* remote management stuff - -Proposers: - -* Martin Zobel-Helas -* Stephen Gran - -We probably have sufficient hardware for this. Current plan involves using one -new box from HP, murphy, a new old sparc that zobel gets from some place, and -puccini that will soon no longer have packages on it. - == new bugs.d.o == Currently bugs runs on a single DL385g1 system which cannot keep up with the @@ -141,3 +115,44 @@ much spare space. We should be looking at replacing that eventually. A raid6 of big SATA disks would probably provide the required robustness and be cost-effective. + += Historical = + +These proposals probably are no longer relevant: + +== new debian mail setup == + +A set of systems that will handle all incoming mail for all debian systems. +Currently our incoming mail handling is on the individual host hosting a +service, i.e. on master.debian.org for @debian.org, on bugs.debian.org for the +bug tracking system, on lists.debian.org for our mailinglists and on several +other systems for their individual, smaller email traffic. + +Centralizing email handling will allow us to maintain our anti-spam measures in +a single point, avoiding duplicate work and hopefully improving our success. + +Requirements: + +* Four or so systems, in at least two different locations, capable of handling + modern anti-spam software. This probably needs a bit of CPU. +* remote management stuff + +Proposers: + +* Martin Zobel-Helas +* Stephen Gran + +We probably have sufficient hardware for this. Current plan involves using one +new box from HP, murphy, a new old sparc that zobel gets from some place, and +puccini that will soon no longer have packages on it. + +Status (2009-05-02): + +We probably still eventually want to move to a more cenralized setup for all +the low-traffic leaf-sites, but momentum on the Big Mail Setup Change seems +to have pretty much died. Since Stephen put quite a lot of work into making +our exim setup more readable, maintainable and we are using the same config now +everywhere, at least some of the reasons for this proposal are no longer valid. +It still might make sense to eventually move @debian.org mail from master to a new +system but we don't need 4 dedicated hosts for that, probably. (weasel) +