I’ve been deploying some old tech recently (smokeping, crm114, spamassassin!) and I’m wondering if they’re still the right tools for those jobs or if I’m relying on very out of date expertise
In the case of SA, I’m not planning on using its actual filter rules, but it’s a method of connecting Exim and crm114. I guess I could swap out crm114 but I’ve been so happy with it. Another tool for this job is https://github.com/jmtd/crm114-spamd/blob/master/crm114-spamd.c. But it’s a lot less battle tested than SA
@jmtd I'm still using smokeping on my rpi. I hear prometheus' blackbox exporter is the modern equivalent, but that seems like more work to set up (even though I already have prometheus and grafana installed)
@ilmari it took longer than I thought but I added a smokeping slave today. Interesting design: master sends Perl to slaves to execute
@ilmari well, I say "working". neither side is complaining, but the graphs for the slaves are blank. Sigh. a rollin' up my sleeves I go!
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@jmtd I still use SpamAssassin and Exim on my VPSes, works fine even with a small amount of RAM. I reject at the connection stage but I don't know if that makes a big difference. There's probably a more modern way now but if it ain't broke don't fix it (I prefer old and reliable, which is why I still use ext4)
@jmtd I live and die by smokeping, not aware of anything that gives similar results.
