Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 3 November 2000 at 16:16:55
-0800
> Well, we all had to start somewhere didn't we? Did you know everything
> about MTAs the first time you installed one? I am almost completely new to
> Unix systems but have had many years experience on various other platforms.
> I am the first to admit that I am used to commercial, expensively
> documented and supported software and am finding the Open Source ideas
> quite a culture shock. I did in fact read everything I could find about
> qmail and its peripheral programs, but it isn't so easy when everything I
> read told me to install it in a different way. What else was I suppose to do?
No insult intended here; but there is in fact something I consider an
obvious step when things aren't working and your sources recommend
different installation approaches.
You could try to debug the problem.
You know, return to the man pages for the actual pieces of qmail, or
even the sources if the man pages don't say what you need (I didn't
need to look at sources for installation myself); figure out what the
different installation procedures you have are trying to do; and see
if what you actually did is something that might work.
An MTA is a highly configurable entity, and installing and configuring
that level of software is in my experience always a process of
development and debugging.
> I have got qmail working now. I have a few little bugs to sort out but I'm
> sure that I will. This would not have been possible without the kind help
> of a number of people on the mailing list who solved my problems. They
> didn't have to help me at all of course! If you are sure your script works
> then great, it most certainly is something I have done wrong but nobody
> came up with a better explanation than chopping out all the delivery rules
> except the ./Maildir/ bit (which I do understand BTW)
>
> Anyway, just you wait until I'm a Unix expert!!!! You might need to give me
> a few years though at this rate.
Well, it's an amazing amount simpler than NT, so maybe not as long as
you think!
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