Oops.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >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.

Nope.  It was a *software installer* 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).

Get a bigger processor.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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