http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/ 2008-07-23T10:13:42-04:00 http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/ http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-07-22T05:22:08-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/copying_a_mysql_database_using_a_network_transfer?rev=1216718528&do=diff You can copy a mysql database to another server using the following command: mysqldump –opt –database mydatabase | mysql -h database.otherdomain.com This will make a copy of mydatabase on the server named database.otherdomain.com For more information or tech support on MySQL call us at 410-838-5100 or email us at <experts@expertsinunix.com> Skype: solution1000 text/html 2008-06-26T06:33:33-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/y?rev=1214476413&do=diff Blog and Blogging Blog - an online diary or a web based personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page. Blogs typically reflect some aspect of the life of the author. Also known as Weblog, Web log. The term weblog was first used in 1997. A blog is a weblog and is also used as verb to meaning to post in a blog. There are different types of blogs including text based blogs, photo blogs,mobile blogs,audio blogs and video blogs. text/html 2008-06-20T05:03:13-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/access_database?rev=1213952593&do=diff Automatically adding Blacklist Database entries to your sendmail access file can be accomplished using the rebuild_access option in the ptsfilter.conf file rebuild_access Add addresses from the Blacklist mysql tables to sendmail access database. Takes 2 arguments action (DISCARD,REJECT) ip only (1), domain only (2) or both (3) ex: rebuild_access~DISCARD~1~ text/html 2008-05-22T05:04:39-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/sendmail_tuning?rev=1211447079&do=diff For more information or technical support by phone on Sendmail Tuning call: 410 838 5100 Sendmail tuning like any system tuning is as much of an art as it a science. Trying to find the root cause of slow performance or mail issues can be difficult. As a matter of fact poor performance of your server as whole would contribute to performance issues with sendmail. That being said you can try some of the following in your sendmail.mc file: text/html 2008-05-22T04:53:29-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/myptsmail_support?rev=1211446409&do=diff With your MyPTSMail account you have support not only for MyPTSMail including your wordpress blog,dokuwiki wiki,personal webpage using a content management system (CMS) such as mambo or joomla,email or any other service you are using, but support for your home computer. You have technical support through email as well as over the phone. Do you have question on how to setup your Outlook Express to contact the MyPTSMail server? Contact us. Do you have a question on how to use your blog, call us… text/html 2008-05-22T04:48:42-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/software_development?rev=1211446122&do=diff Software Development software development - The process of a consumers' computer based need being transformed into a software program that performs the desired function. This process includes but is not limited consumer needs analysis, program requirements research and software engineering. text/html 2008-05-22T04:44:27-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/ptsmail_utilities?rev=1211445867&do=diff The PTSMail Utilities are a comprehensive set of Email Utilities for Unix sendmail servers. The utilities include what we consider the best anti spam and virus filter there is. Tests in this filter include domain blacklist, ip blacklists and surbl blacklists. The tests also include spf Sender Policy Framework,regular expressions against the whole message, the body only, headers only and more. Using mysql you get a complete history that you can search with sql queries. Other tests include gr… text/html 2008-05-12T05:05:08-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/will_do_external?rev=1210583108&do=diff Want to create a custom test or function for your email? Use the will_do_external option to the ptsfilter. This option allows you to use a shell script, perl, or what ever you would like to use for your function. will_do_external Performs a user specified script. This takes a fully qualified pathname for the program to run. This also has the options of 1, 2, and 3. ex: will_do_external~/usr/local/bin/myscript~3~ option 1 performs the command on messages accepted option 2 performs the co… text/html 2008-05-11T06:30:38-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/show_thirdparty?rev=1210501838&do=diff Shows the current version installed and the current version available of the third party software used by PTSMail Utilities. sample output: These are your current versions ——————————- Clamav: ClamAV 0.92/7076/Fri May 9 03:38:02 2008 DCC: 1.3.58 MySql: Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.19, for unknown-freebsd4.4 on i386 Vipul’s Razor: Razor Agents 2.84, protocol version 3 Sendmail: Version 8.14.2 text/html 2008-05-09T05:14:17-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/smd_daemon?rev=1210324457&do=diff The smd daemon monitors the PTSFilter and performs regular maintenance and “house cleaning”. Options: do_refresh : restarts the ptsfilter without performing maintenance. It has one option which is the time in minutes before it restarts the filter. example: do_refresh~10~ : restarts the filter every ten minutes. text/html 2008-05-08T05:18:09-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/mysql_utilities?rev=1210238289&do=diff mysql_utilities is a command line utility to setup and maintain your ptsmail database. mysql_utilities is located in /usr/local/etc/ptsfilter. You can use the following arguments with mysql_utilities : -c - Create PTSMail Database -i - Get information for mysql server -u - Update PTSMail Database text/html 2008-05-07T10:19:32-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/repairing_a_mysql_table_with_repair_and_lock_table?rev=1210169972&do=diff When repairing a mysql table you may need to lock it and repair. To do that you need to use the following sequence. From the command line: mysql> use ptsmail Database changed mysql> Lock table BlackList write; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) text/html 2008-05-06T14:16:20-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/consolidating_email_accounts?rev=1210097780&do=diff Consolidating all of the email accounts you have into your MyPTSMail Account is very straight forward. Contact <support@myptsmail.com> and let them know the email provider. It can be anyone, yahoo,gmail, aol, your work provider or all of them. Let them know if you want to remove the messages after they are moved to your MyPTSMail Account or leave them in place. When new messages come into these accounts they will be placed into your MyPTSMail Account. The format will show the messages the… text/html 2008-05-04T09:24:44-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/checking_system_variables_values_in_mysql?rev=1209907484&do=diff You can see the current values of system variables in MySQL using the show variables query in MySQL. Example: show variables; To look for a particular type of variable use: show variables like ‘pattern’; The query will return the session value of each variable. Many of the these can be changed in the my.cnf configuration file. text/html 2008-05-03T10:26:18-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/accreditation_services?rev=1209824778&do=diff Accreditation Services are almost a reverse dnsbl. If you are in the database you have said I will play by the rules of proper mail solicitation. To use this with sendmail and the ptsfilter add the following to your ptsfilter.conf file Ptsfilter commands: do_habeas_check Turn on Habeas accreditation check. text/html 2008-05-02T04:41:16-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/getip?rev=1209717676&do=diff Create a local DNSBL from email Statistics getip - PTSMail Utilities DNSBL utility: getip is located in /usr/local/etc/ptsfilter. getip will scan the stats file and get all blacklisted ip addresses You can use these IP addresses to create your own local DNSBL example: /usr/local/etc/ptsfilter/getip text/html 2008-05-01T05:00:06-04:00 admin http://www.myptsmail.com/wiki/afo?rev=1209632406&do=diff The following was submitted by Sid Mclaurin of American Families Online. They are an ISP in Florida and a very successful user of PTSMail Utilities. On average they block over 90% of incoming mail a day. You can reach Sid at smclaurin@afo.net