Oops.

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 26, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>I have had a big slug of stuck outbound email, it seems.
>
>I was stupid: I installed qmail, and forgot to replace the stock
>sendmail binary with the one it supplies.  When I found all the mail
>laying around... I ran the queue.  

Sounds like you were operating a computer with insufficient
caffeine levels.

>In retrospect, this may not have been the most productive solution.
>
>So, pick up old thread and run, or ignore.  At your leisure.  

I wondered why all that old mail reappeared (and why my load average on the
mail server was around 5).

Bill
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