Since Mail-in-a-Box is targeted at general users, most are going to have no clue where to begin troubleshooting when they come here asking for help. Instead of going back-and-forth trying to get one piece of info at a time, what if we asked them to run a single script that uploads all the pertinent config files etc. to the internet?
Think something like Ubuntu’s Boot-Info tool, but for troubleshooting email.
It would be complementary to the whats_next.py script. That script guides users with a box in a known state, whereas the tools/audit script would be for helping users with a box in an unhandled, broken state.
My first concern with the script is that it needs to anonymize any obviously sensitive content:
- IPs
- Email Addresses
- Hostnames
- Usernames
Apart from that, we’d have to decide what information would be useful to include in the audit. I’m thinking:
- Config files for basically any component in the System Architecture diagram
- Postfix queue
- IP configuration
- Firewall configuration
- Recent log files
What else?