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elvandar said:
A couple of ISP's that I know of and hosting companies do not delegate the control over reverse DNS to customers. Currently DirectAdmin does not support maintaining a /27 (in my case) as reverse DNS. I would like to see such a feature added so that I can control my reverse DNS in my DA installation.
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I'm confused. If your ISP does NOT delegate control over reverse DNS to you, then anything you do is totally irrelevant because the requests will never reach your DA server.

Jeff
 
Jeremy,

And I've edited my post to make it clear that I was responding to elvandar.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
I'm confused. If your ISP does NOT delegate control over reverse DNS to you, then anything you do is totally irrelevant because the requests will never reach your DA server.

Jeff
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I ment the people that facilititate 'DA customers' (the average hosting client thus) as ISP's and Hosting companies; they do not always want their hosting client to have the ability to change the reverse DNS because of multiple hosting clients on one address etc. Please note that ISP can be a broad range of companies and they can also use DA to manage their infrastructure.

Hopefully this makes it more clear.
 
ONLY the ISP/Data Center can delegate RDNS records. Or at least offer you some sort of management console/control panel. You can't change it for that matter, on your DA server.
 
my list:
1, REAL multi-server support, not just the one for DNS. (like Webmin's clustering feature)
2, built-in API for plugins
3, Per domain usage stats (CPU, Ram, etc)
4, built-in feature like SMTP Limiter that allows admin to setup outgoing mail limit within DA.
5, integrated ClamAV support
 
I see a lot of people asking things, which are simply impossible or pretty hard to build in.

But my greatest whish is: get rid of Exim!

I have never seen such a buggy mailserver, it really has so much troubles.

Then it has troubles with SSL, then with this, etc, etc.

Postfix is my favorite, but Qmail will also do fine. But Qmail is a bit outdated.

I run a cluster consisting of 10 Postfix servers and they work great, so Postfix would be great!

But ofcourse, a bit more fancy options in DA would be nice, but as a system administrator my biggest whish is to get rid of Exim!
 
Wido said:
I see a lot of people asking things, which are simply impossible or pretty hard to build in.

But my greatest whish is: get rid of Exim!
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Note that the following anti-rant is entirely mine. I wrote it without any input from the staff of JBMC, authors and distributors of DirectAdmin, and the thoughts expressed herein are entirely my own :) .

Your wish sounds like a religious argument to me.
I have never seen such a buggy mailserver, it really has so much troubles.

Then it has troubles with SSL, then with this, etc, etc.
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The SSL problem (which I've never experienced) is one example. Any others?
Postfix is my favorite
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That's also a religious argument. My religious preference is exim. Why should yours be any better than mine ;) ?
but Qmail will also do fine. But Qmail is a bit outdated.
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The last time Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) worked on qmail was almost eight years ago; I'd say outdated is an understatement. Mr. Bernstein is beyond a doubt, a genius. The proof of that is in his quite elegant Maildir implementation, which I prefer to mbox any day, hands down.

But he's also got what I consider to be an unhealthy disregard for RFCs and I couldn't use any of his 'net facing products for that reason. Your mileage may vary, but for me, that's a no-brainer.

Also, Mr. Bernstein's license for qmail gives the user absolutely no rights except the right to use it NOW, with no guarantee Mr. Bernstein will allow him/her to use it in the future (read the license).

Also Mr. Bernstein does not allow modified versions of qmail to be distributed. Which means the only way to deliver it is with the original source code and patches. Patches come from many different sources, and there is NO definitive version of qmail which is authoritative.

Nor is there any definitive version of qmail with all the features built it. If you want a feature added the only thing you can do under the license is build it yourself. Think there are a lot of complaints now from DirectAdmin users who want an appliance experience? Just watch for the complaints you'll see if DA switches to qmail.
I run a cluster consisting of 10 Postfix servers and they work great, so Postfix would be great!
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I'm very happy that Postfix works for you. It's a great product.

But DirectAdmin's email facility was designed around how exim manages email, and how the exim.conf file manages mail delivery.

Either postfix or DirectAdmin would have to undergo drastic rewrites for DA to be able to manage postfix.
But ofcourse, a bit more fancy options in DA would be nice, but as a system administrator my biggest whish is to get rid of Exim!
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Just as you've got years of experience in postfix, I've got years of experience in exim. If DA switched to qmail(edited 27-JUL-2007), I'd either leave DA for mail handling, or leave it completely. You may of course feel the same way about DA and postfix ;) .

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
If DA switched to exim, I'd either leave DA for mail handling, or leave it completely. You may of course feel the same way about DA and postfix ;) .

Jeff
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I think you got that last sentence a bit wrong. :)

Grant
 
Okay, roundcube is done, custombuild is near the stable release, "move user to reseller", "move domain to user", "convert user to reseller" and "convert reseller to user" scripts are done, and maybe they will be included by default soon :) May we continue "TOP5 wanted features"? :) (now without those features I mentioned (unless you want to "improve" them))
 
I would like to see:
  1. AWstats included into DirectAdmin.
  2. Individual e-mail user control panel.
  3. Integrated ClamAV support and the newest SpamBlocker.
  4. Better support for changing skins (especially hiding or adding extra options).
  5. Multiple assignable IPs per user.
Thanks. :)
 
Some improvement
- Support for Remote MySQL server
- Support for Multiple MySQL servers (esp 4.0 and 5.0). Since MySQL 4.0 handles character set different to 5.0 one, esp in Asia-pacific character set.
- User can choose PHP4 (cgi) or PHP5 (cgi) in DirectAdmin
- Email reminder for the virtual email user quota which are nearly full
- Password complexity (e.g. requires at least 1 number, 1 capital letter, etc)

Some minor improvement
- da_login_pre.sh - we can write script to limit source ip for some sensitive account login before authentication.

Others:
- /var/www/html/webmail/tmp user data (esp. email in user folder) can be counted into the Linux user quota

Dream:
- DirectAdmin for Windows (i.e. write a plugin for Windows Server 2003 to control MS FTP/IIS/Quota/ODBC, and then keep Exim, Dovecot, MySQL, and Named in Linux)
- Incremental Backup in /home/resellerA/user_backups/...
- Concurrent backup processes to more utilize multi-core CPU capacity
- CentOS 5.0 comes with stable kernel 2.6.18+ for (multiple) LVM snapshot. It would be great if user can build user backup (/home/userA/backups/) based on LVM snapshot.

Thank you.
ccto.
 
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This thread has become exactly what I thought it would become; a mixed up mess of suggestions which end up impossible to follow.

Anyone feel badly about closing it and reverting to the model of making your case for the suggestion(s) you like in individual threads, hopefully already existing ones?

Jeff
 
Please include LDAP-support for administrator accounts, for us with a lot of servers and some rotation on staff, it's a real pain in the ass to remove/add administrators everytime someone starts or stops working at our company.
 
jlasman said:
This thread has become exactly what I thought it would become; a mixed up mess of suggestions which end up impossible to follow.

Anyone feel badly about closing it and reverting to the model of making your case for the suggestion(s) you like in individual threads, hopefully already existing ones?

Jeff
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Personally, I think the discussion is beneficial to the community. The developers should be participating as well as the users
 
Okay ;) . I know I can't follow it.

And if I were one of the developers I'd want to see a thread with a title related to the feature requested, and then discussion of that feature in the thread.

Maybe I'm in the minority :) .

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
Note that the following anti-rant is entirely mine. I wrote it without any input from the staff of JBMC, authors and distributors of DirectAdmin, and the thoughts expressed herein are entirely my own :) .

Your wish sounds like a religious argument to me.

The SSL problem (which I've never experienced) is one example. Any others?
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Yes, i do:
- Exim segfaults a lot on my systems (Debian and Ubuntu), which makes delivery very unstable
- Like i said, it has many issues with SSL/TLS, messages get frozen in the queue
- Sometimes Exim binds to port 80 when it is called via /usr/sbin/sendmail and Apache restarts at that particulair moment, i had to make a hack which checkes netstat for Exim on port 80
- Exim is designed to deliver mail instantly, when a message cannot be delivered directly and it has to wait in the queue for a few hours, sometimes it gets frozen.

Ofcourse, there are some religious reasons why i want Postfix, but i think everybody has preferences for a specific software package.

Nevertheless, i bought a Exim book and started reading, since i am stuck with Exim at the moment, i have to know what i am working with.

But in my experience Postfix runs more stable onder Debian and Ubuntu than Exim.
 
Jeff,

To make life simpler, why not set up a poll, take out of this thread all of the ideas and set a poll for them, that way the developers would see a clear indicator?

Chris
 
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