Oops.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:50:37PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:32:50PM -0400, Fairlight 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.  
> 
> > > 50 lashes!  :)
> 
> > Ouch!!!
> 
> Was your queue stuck THAT long.  One message I got on this list
> today had a March 2003 date on it.  I'd have thought you might have
> noticed it after 14 months :-) [I'm betting on that one it was a
> clock setting].

Anything that didn't go out on the first try didn't go out *ever*,
until I ran the queue.  Sendmail wasn't *running* queues, qmail was,
and that wasn't the queue *my* mail went into -- everybody who was
delivering via smtp was fine.  I called the *binary* from mutt.

> > It's ok, but djb's a weirdo, and the licensing reflects it.  I'm
> > switching to postfix, as soon as I learn it.
> 
> And what caused you to switch from sendmail to qmail?  

I don't remember, honestly... sendmail security, I think.

> And you comment of "djb's a weirdo" has to be a major
> understatement.

I do try.

Cheers,
-- jra
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