Comments for Paul Dowman

Comment on How to convert from Subversion to Git by Albert

Albert — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:53:58 +0000

Hey - this might help for creating tags from branches:

git branch -r | awk ‘{ print “git tag “$1″ tags/”$1 ” && git branch -r -d tags/”$1 }’

Comment on How to convert from Subversion to Git by Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:47:22 +0000

Thanks a lot — this is a very helpful no-nonsense guide!

Comment on Movin’ on… (status of EC2 on Rails) by Paul Dowman

Paul Dowman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:44:12 +0000

Thanks Joshua!

Comment on Movin’ on… (status of EC2 on Rails) by jtimberman

jtimberman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:36:10 +0000

Hello!

Ezra’s chef-deploy is ported directly into Chef now, so you can use a deploy resource in Chef as of version 0.7.12rc0. The documentation is located at:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Deploy+Resource

It supports timestamp (a la Capistrano) or revision (a la Heroku) based deploys.

Comment on I’ll set up your Ruby on Rails server for you. For free. by Paul Dowman

Paul Dowman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:24:46 +0000

Sean,

The unreleased version available on my GitHub account has been substantially rewritten, it uses Passenger and Nginx. Unfortunately though, I don’t have time to do any more work on EC2 on Rails, so I won’t be making a release that includes these changes.

Paul

Comment on Movin’ on… (status of EC2 on Rails) by Paul Dowman

Paul Dowman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:38:40 +0000

Thanks for your kind words Michael! :-)

Comment on Movin’ on… (status of EC2 on Rails) by Michael Slade

Michael Slade — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:13:16 +0000

Hi Paul,

Congratulations on becoming a dad. It is a lot of fun. When my son was little, people would ask how old he was and then say “that’s a great age.” It would freak me out because I was certain that the “great age” would be followed by something less great. Over time I learned that all the ages are great.

Thank you for all your work on EC2 on Rails. It has helped me a great deal that you took care of details I didn’t understand.

Enjoy your family and have a great life.

– Michael

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Paul Dowman

Paul Dowman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:21:38 +0000

Pravin,
AuthSMTP requires all “from” addresses need to be registered and authorized individually, you do that at http://control.authsmtp.com.

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Pravin

Pravin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:15:54 +0000

Hi
I installed Postfix with Amazon Ec2 instance.
I am using relay host mail.authsmtp.com .
I done all the configuration in the Postfix configuration file.
I am getting this error in the SMTP control panel.
Error : Envelope From Address of is not authorised - go to: http://control.authsmtp.com

Any one can me tell that how i can resolve this?

Thanks

Comment on I’ll set up your Ruby on Rails server for you. For free. by Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:57:35 +0000

Hello Paul,

Thank you for the work you did. Please consider support for Phusion Passenger.

Thanks,
Sean

Comment on Canpages buys GigPark! by James Zhang

James Zhang — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:15:48 +0000

Hi Paul,

I am too late to read this, that is so coooool, congratulation.

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by zardoz

zardoz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:58:12 +0000

Thanks so much for this Paul, works beautifully on our setup sending ~500k emails per month. I am still amazed how much easier/more ‘english’ the Postfix configuration is than Sendmail. Glad to be rid of that POS.

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by chris

chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:17:20 +0000

I also relay my emails to a postfix relay server on a slicehost account that has the correct DNS PTR records. Emails to hotmail went to the spam folder so I had to remove email headers containing the internal EC2 hostname. This is done in the postfix relay servers main.cf:

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/maps/header_checks

And the in /etc/postfix/maps/header_checks:

# Sample For Dropping Headers:
#/^Header: IfContains/ IGNORE
/^Received: from domU-12-34-56-78-90-AB.compute-1.internal/ IGNORE
/^Received: by domU-12-34-56-78-90-AB.compute-1.internal/ IGNORE

Comment on How to convert from Subversion to Git by W-Mark Kubacki

W-Mark Kubacki — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:15:50 +0000

If you have more than one repository, this loop might help you finding all users:

for R in repo1 repo2 repo3 …; do svn log –quiet file:///var/svn/$R | grep ^r | cut -d ‘|’ -f 2; done | sort -u

Comment on Backing up your MySQL database to S3 by Julien

Julien — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:17:18 +0000

Awesome! I’ve been looking for that…
Just one little question though : I have a Master Master replication. Is there any chance that this breaks the replication? (I am thinking that flushing the logs might be bad). If so, is there any solution to that?

Comment on How to convert from Subversion to Git by Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:22:27 +0000

I’m getting the following error on step 3
Found possible branch point: http://svn2.xp-dev.com/svn/oncemade-cssSys/trunk => http://svn2.xp-dev.com/svn/oncemade-cssSys/tags/ModernBrowsers, 62
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1657.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1657.
refs/remotes/trunk: ‘http://svn2.xp-dev.com/svn/oncemade-cssSys’ not found in ”

how can I fix it?

Thanks!

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Rick

Rick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:06:46 +0000

Ok well if I hard code the the internal IP of the frontend instance in the $mynetworks variable in main.cf, like 10.x.x.x, it will connect and send the mail. However, this IP changes for every frontend server. How can I get the server to allow all mail?

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Rick

Rick — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:40 +0000

Paul,

Thanks for the tutorial. How can I adjust the config file to allow all my frontend instances relay through one centralized postfix server in the same security group? I can’t figure out how to get it to allow connections from my other instances.

Thanks!

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Shaokun - I too have had an issue recently with emails to yahoo addresses disappearing when sent from AuthSMTP. I just filled out the link you provided - if you have heard anything from Yahoo, please let us know.

Comment on A rock-solid setup for sending SMTP mail from your EC2 web server by Shaokun

Shaokun — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:38:11 +0000

Good post! I have followed this article and set up AuthSMTP for our web site. But recently, a few of the customers who use yahoo account complaint that they never get the emails. I check it and found that with AuthSMTP, those emails to yahoo just got disappeared. Without AuthSMTP, just SPF, they were caught in the trash folder.

So I asked the support of AuthSMTP. They suggest to fill the form from Yahoo:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

Have filled that form, but so far, no feedback and no help at all.

Any idea? Seems that other people have the same problem too.