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Topic: iredAPD?

So, at some point, I managed to stop iRedAPD from working. And, email kept working just fine, so I didn't actually notice it wasn't working until I looked at a log file one day.

So, the question is, what am I missing by not having iRedAPD going?

Thanks.

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Re: iredAPD?

Which iRedAPD release are you running? iRedAPD-1.5.0 is buggy, you should upgrade to iRedAPD-1.6.0 immediately.
here's upgrade tutorial:
http://www.iredmail.org/docs/upgrade.iredapd.html

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Re: iredAPD?

it can't connect to the postgresql database (I had changed passwords back during Heartbleed and evidently missed iredapd), at the moment:

The log file just fills up with stuff like:
2015-07-10 11:20:27 INFO [31.187.69.28] miracle.smoke-user=cnf.cornell.edu@shrpeyee.eu -> user@cnf.cornell.edu, DUNNO
2015-07-10 11:20:42 ERROR Error while creating database connection: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "vmail"

So, even though it's running, and an old version (1.4.4, I think), I don't believe it's doing anything useful. Hence I haven't bothered upgrading it with the last several iredmail general upgrades.

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Re: iredAPD?

*) Make sure it uses a correct SQL username/password for vmail database in /opt/iredapd/settings.py.
*) Make sure PostgreSQL server allows connection from this user.

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Re: iredAPD?

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

*) Make sure it uses a correct SQL username/password for vmail database in /opt/iredapd/settings.py.
*) Make sure PostgreSQL server allows connection from this user.

I think you misunderstood what I was asking.

What features am I missing out on by not having iRedAPD working?

thanks.

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Re: iredAPD?

iRedAPD has some plugins:

*) White/blacklists
*) Access policy for mailing list (or mail alias)
*) Throttling based on per-message size
*) Force users to change password in 90 days
*) Reject email sent with null sender
*) Reject sender login mismatch (this is a replacement for Postfix 'reject_sender_login_mismatch' restriction rule).

So, if you don't enable iRedAPD, you lost all of them.

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Re: iredAPD?

isn't some of this handled by cluebringer?

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Re: iredAPD?

We're replacing Cluebringer by iRedAPD, and plan to drop Cluebringer in future release.