Down Night
I seem to be having one of those nights where you’re down for no discernable reason, and things just don’t go well because of it. Today has mostly been dedicated to cleanup – both online and off. On the good side, I got a fair bit of housework done, and I’ve laid the groundwork for more server setup and improvement. On the downside, I feel lousy and don’t know what exactly to do about it.
Right now, the next significant project on my server agenda is to finish preparing Sekhmet to move some of my hosted sites back. I’m investigating mail server software, since I haven’t yet found anything I’m really happy with. Right now I’m using a bastard hybrid system which works, but not very well. It’s a stone bitch to maintain, and gives me hives every time I have to work on it. For this reason it’s about 90% likely that I’m going to try out something cleaner and more efficient and see if I can get something to work in a more stable way.
The major thorn in my side is mail vertual hosting. I do not want to have user accounts on the machines for each mail user. I’ve had it with that solution. I think that I’ll end up with courier backed by some kind of database – probably Mysql. Well – that’s for another day…
