I should pay more attention to which e-mail address I am using to instill confidence.
Bob On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 20:31 +0100, Keith wrote: > On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 13:07 -0400, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users > wrote: > > Bob via Postfix-users: > > > Having put my foot in it by suggesting that Postfix might make > > > calls to > > > external functions requiring root access, in particular IPTables, > > > what > > > if Postfix had its own version of IPtables. > > > > It was decided long ago that Postfix will be extensible with > > different > > tools from different manufacturers, allowing the system > > administrator > > to choose the best tool for the job. This approach reflects that > > the initial market was organizations, and that the initial audience > > was system administrators. > > > > Michael W. Lucas recently wrote a book for individuals who wish to > > "run your own mail server". It covers a wide range of topics, and > > I think it lowers the barrier for entrance (despite the claim that > > it is for the hard-core Unix sysadmin, by a fellow hard-core > > sysadmin). > > > > Wietse > > _______________________________________________ > > Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org > > OK... perhaps it is best to ignore me on this one but last time I > programmed in anger, meaning I may have bodged it, I used Borland > Pascal to interface a bunch of production test equipment for testing > loudspeakers I designed to some IBM clones. C was suggested but I was > MEH. These days I am also rubbish in Lazarus. > > > Later on I got an NVQ in C, which was mostly Visual Basic and some > train shunting problem. Also in the dim and distant past I had a play > with assembler on a placement. The engine management system printer > interface was broken. > > I assure you that the rest of my CV is similarly unimpressive. > > > https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix > https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/blob/master/postfix/src/anvil/anvil.c > > If you are interested and I do not subsequently break your head can I > ask some questions as to how to find snippets of your code that might > do things related to those questions so I can fail to make sense of > them and rob them to try and implement a/my thing? > > You can make a strong guess that I will need nursemading to get up > and > running but either I have to intall all/some of the Hardcore Unix add > ons and work out how to use them or just go to the source and bend > it. > > When the pain becomes too much tell me to get lost. You can do that > now. > > Your starter for 5 is the only time I have ever cloned something from > Git was Mastodon and whilst I was following the instructions (copy > and > paste), it fell over multiple times and then said, two hours later, > it > did not have enough memory. Mastodon is, apparently, infected by > Linux > Geeks. > > Oh. Someone said they did not understand what I was trying to say. > That's kool. I know i do it and the excuse/reason is that I have an > Attachement Deficit Disorder so, at best, my social skills are a bit > broken along with my communication skills. > > Bob _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
