Category Archives: POP3/IMAP/SMTP

AWS: Simple Email Service Bounce rate and monitoring with and Prometheus

14 July 2021
 

 Recently, AWS blocked our AWS Simple Email Service because of its low bounce rate. This can be checked in the AWS SES > Reputation Dashboard, our account currently has Under review status: After we’ve connected AWS Tech Support, they enabled it back, but we must solve the issue asap, and have to monitor AWS SES… Read More »

Linux: LEMP set up – NGINX, PHP, MySQL, SSL, monitoring, logs, and a WordPress blog migration

6 November 2020
 

 Finally got time to migrate the RTFM.CO.UA blog to a new server with Debian 10. This time manually, without any automation will set up a LEMP stack Wrote a similar at 2016 – Debian: установка LEMP — NGINX + PHP-FPM + MariaDB (Rus), but in time the post is more complete of the process and… Read More »

Debian: unattended-upgrades – automatic upgrades installation with email notifications via AWS SES

23 May 2019
 

 A unattended-upgrades package performs automated upgrades installation on Debian/Ubuntu systems. It’s a Python script (1500 lines) located at /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade (and /usr/bin/unattended-upgrades is a symlink to the /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade). CentsOS/RHEL analog – yum-cron. Install it: [simterm] $ sudo apt -y install unattended-upgrades [/simterm] The main config file is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades where upgrade types, email settings etc can be… Read More »

TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux

22 March 2019
 

 TestRail – Test Case Management Software for QA and Development Teams. Well – that’s all needed as a description) Below – its installation on Debian Linux with NGINX, Let’s Encrypt, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Exim. Project’s homepage – www.gurock.com/testrail Installation official documentation – here>>>. Setup will be on an AWS EC2. LEMP and SSL Login to… Read More »

Linux: systemd-unit files edit, restart on failure and email notifications

1 March 2019
 

 We have a RabbitMQ service which sometimes can go down. So need to: restart it if is exited with the failure send an email notification Let’s do it via RabbitMQ’s systemd service (though there are various options, e.g. using the monit, check the Monit: мониторинг и перезапуск NGINX post). Will use two options here: RestartSec=: delay… Read More »