My question is "Why in all hell are they rebooting a server to stop SPAM"? Shut the mail service or port down! Fix the filtering (block the IP's of the offending party) in the iptables/firewalld and then open the port up again.. You should never need to shut the box down for something like spam... If they have to reboot, don't use 'reboot'... or at least do a 'sync', then a 'reboot'.. One should always use 'shutdown -r now' to do a graceful shutdown. Just my nickles worth.. -Rich On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Paul Lesniewski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2016年11月07日 13:34, Alan in Toronto wrote: > > SquirrelMail 1.4.22 > > Applied patch to functions/mime.php that is included in 1.4.23svn > > PHP 5.2.9, SuPHP module, Zend Optimizer > > Dovecot 1.1.19 (in a cPanel release), but uses some Courier NAMESPACE > settings such > > as prefix = INBOX. > > Capabilities: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES > MULTIAPPEND > > UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS > LIST-EXTENDED > > I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN > > Maildir mail storage format > > Mail is stored in /home/webaccountname/mail/mailusername/ > > Apache 2.0.63, cPanel virtual web hosting account > > ESMTP Exim exim-4.87-5.cp1156 > > IMAP Server Address: 127.0.0.1 > > SMTP Server Address: 127.0.0.1 > > Server side sorting is enabled > > Server side thread sorting is disabled > > Allow editing of identities: Yes > > Allow editing of full name: Yes > > SquirrelMail access via SSL (https) for entire session > > Browser: usually IE9, plus testing on others > > User login with full e-mail address, e.g. alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Many plugins, including: Auto Complete; Folder Synch; Select Range; etc. > > Compatibility plugin 2.0.16 > > SquirrelMail configtest: pass > > > > Hello: > > > > Today when I was logged into my own user account in my SquirrelMail > installation, > > the server was rebooted. That wiped out my user prefs file and several > other related > > files for signatures and some plugin data. > > e.g. > > > > user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > user@xxxxxxxxxx.s1 > > user@xxxxxxxxxx.s2 > > user@xxxxxxxxxx.words > > > > etc. > > > > The filenames still exist in that directory, but the contents have been > somehow > > wiped out. > > The last time this occurred, a web server support tech had killed all > server > > connections to stop a spammer. I was logged into SquirrelMail at that > time. He > > thinks that because SquirrelMail couldn't properly access those files, > or because > > they were in use, the contents got wiped out and became zero bytes. > > > > Is there any way to prevent this from happening? > > When a user is logged in, those files remain on disk as normal files. > The only reason I can think of for them to get wiped is if the files > were actually being updated when the reboot happened. I doubt > SquirrelMail can do much about that, unless you want to make a plugin > that creates backup preference files or something. Instead I'd suggest > you have a backup system on the machine from where you can pull files > when this happens. > > -- > Paul Lesniewski > SquirrelMail Team > Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! > http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors > Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. > With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. > Training and support from Colfax. > Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
