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.
prev 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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