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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:59:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93BDA5DA-34F1-436B-8BF8-129975006D6B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004192251.11426.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>


On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:50, Mick wrote:
> ...
> The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up,  
> it'll work,
> you'll never touch it again.  Then, two years later something will  
> require you
> to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will
> remember what you did or why it made any sense at the time!  Ha,  
> ha!  :-))

To be fair, is this not mostly the case with the majority of big,  
powerful servers on *nix platforms?

I have certainly found this to be the case with Apache, Postfix and to  
a lesser extend Samba. Oh! Also syslog-ng's filtering options. The  
only text-based configuration file I've found easy to recreate has  
been that of Dovecot.

Stroller.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 12:20 [gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail Mick
2010-04-16 23:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-04-17  9:33   ` Mick
2010-04-17 12:01   ` Mick
2010-04-18 15:14     ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-18 21:06       ` Mick
2010-04-18 22:27         ` Peter Humphrey
2010-04-19 10:05           ` Tanstaafl
2010-04-19 14:49             ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-19 19:07               ` Mick
2010-04-19 19:20                 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-19 21:55                   ` Mick
2010-04-19 19:28                 ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-19 19:19               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-19 19:42                 ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-19 21:50                 ` Mick
2010-04-20 13:53                   ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-20 15:28                     ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-20 15:51                       ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-20 16:02                         ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-21 10:22                         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-23  0:25                           ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-20 21:57                     ` Stroller
2010-04-21 10:18                     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-21 14:19                       ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-23  0:23                       ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-20 21:59                   ` Stroller [this message]

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