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Bugger, I was hoping for the glitch our end. Enter panic mode now as it hosts our helpdesk as well.

Does anyone use http://www.dream-hosting.co.uk to host their website? Our site http://www.prentonhigh.wirral.sch.uk and http://www.dream-hosting.co.uk are timing out and I wondered if anyone else is having the same problem. Ta

OK just to clarify I know the price of 8-9k looks high but that would include me being included in the set up, and a promise to help out with any problems after the set up, obviously not indefinitely.

Ok when are we looking to do it? We have funds from end of April and want it up and running after the Summer holidays. I wouldn't bank on all the laptops coming in in one hit BUT I'd ask for them and any that didn't would just have to do without them, usual thing here.

Sorry forgot to mention that the local school who would help out would charge about £8-9000 to do the work. This would also include me going across to their school to be involved in the setting up of the servers so I'd be learning at the same time. I just want a system that works and I'm quite happy to then go off and learn anything else i need to to make it work well.

Back again, Sorry forgot to mention my location. In Prenton on the Wirral. Ok RM quote was around £30,000. I'll PM anyone my phone number if they are serious and want to chat! We have about 300 workstations including laptops, 2 admin and 2 curric servers. Not sure what else to put here at the moment.

Ok only a short post first as I have about 100 jobs to do by 9:00am. We are looking to replace our current system with a new one. Starting from scratch with new servers. We currently have an admin and a curriculum and are looking to combine. I have already had RM quote me happy (not) and a local school who seem to help other schools a lot and I am quite happy to use them BUT I have been asked to find other sources of help. So I'm looking for either a company to give me an idea of cost or someone who can do this from another school who may have the experiece. I'm looking to go with either windows 2003/2008 vanilla or maybe with Ranger tools on top. I suggest Ranger as I am not sure how I would do certain tasks without it. e.g send out software that isn't an msi, bulk add users, quickly add a user? As I have said before on the forum I am not confident enough to set up a domain by myself so hence this post. Anyone?

Please do give more info about SUPER ??

NO! She had printed the photos on a black and white printer from a web page!

A student just came into my office and asked if we had a colour photocopier. I asked why. She showed me a "black and white" printout of some photos and told me she wanted to copy it. I said that she wouldn't need a colour photocoper as the pictures where black and white. She replied that the original pictures where colour sh wouldn't the copies come out in colour!!!

OMG, it works!!! Thanks webman, when I edited my putmail.py by replacing the text with yours it worked! Wow. Once again thanks guys for all the help. One step closer to a decent email server.

Bugger, I'm still getting the same error. I'll have to try and find what this HOME environment variable is!

- rw-r--r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 77 Jun 15 2006 putmailrc Mine had -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Jun 15 2006 putmailrc so I used chown and now it looks like yours. Cheers I'll let you know how this fairs.

I have checked that file and I do have it set up with my settings just like yours. Could you help with how I check the permissions? Is that with chmod ? Thanks

I'm sure I'm getting closer to getting this to work now! When i send an email out at the moment it gets returned with an error... Command died with status 1: "/usr/local/sbin/filter". Command output: Error: HOME environment variable not set I can get rid of this error by returning to my original master.cf so I'm not overly worried but it does mean I'm not getting my words filtered! Just wondering if it means HOME not set in the filter file or in the master.cf?

I'm loving all this delving in to linux. I really need to find a good dummies guide and dive in head first.

I'm sweating because one day it won't be a test server and the only thing that will be there to keep it going is me.

Argh, I don't know what I did apart from uninstalling mailx and sendmail and then installing and uninstalling postfix but eveything is ok again now!! Thanks guys for your rapid responses! My head is spinning now even thought this is just a test server!

I'm on ubuntu server. Wow that is a long list... Just before I send it I have just started to reinstall postfix, so it is showing in the list. Do you still want to see it?

Crud, It's much worse than I thought. After installing a couple of scripts and noticing that they were trying to send a mail out with sendmail I went and installed sendmail-bin and mailx. Duh! I think this uninstalled postfix. As when i tried to start it with kmounts advice I was told that postfix was not installed. I guess I'm going to have to reinstall and configure it again! Bummer

Having looked on my server using zmcontrol status I see that postfix isn't running. oops

Ok, So I have been trying to get word filtering to work for my zimbra install BUT I must have cocked up somewhere as now I can't send and receive emails! I have logged on to the admin page and the mta service isn't running. Go figure. I have tried a reboot to no avail. i have brought back my original "master.cf" file but still it doesn't run. SO i thought well i do need to know how to recover from a disaster at some point How would i go about recovering a backed up and tarballed /opt/zimbra folder! Thanks yet again!!!

Cheers Cybernerd. I promise that if i get it working I will try to edit it so duffers like me can understand!

Thanks for that cybernerd. It did sort of say to do that in the wiki but it was a bit vague. Now I have your attention you couldn't let me know how the heck the badword list works could you? The example is... \ \ \ \ \ You couldn't show me how that should look with a couple of words in it could you? I can't see the logic in it at the moment!

I must have missed something then as I can't see anywhere that references my script! I created the script but saved it with a name of filterwords.sh as in the section of the wiki that starts... We now need to create and edit the script that ties it all together, probably you can copy it from here. This script was modified from the postfix website. Check that INSPECT_DIR points to your filter directory, SENDMAIL points to your putmail.py program, BADWORDS points to the location of your words file and that MAILADMIN is set to the email address of the administrator. !/bin/sh # Simple shell-based filter. It is meant to be invoked as follows: # /path/to/script -f sender recipients... # Localize these. The -G option does nothing before Postfix 2.3. As it doesn't tell me where to save it and what as, I called it filterwords.sh and saved it it /usr/local/bin. I'm assuming Iv'e messed up again somewhere!