Postfix help needed

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

> On Thursday 29 November 2007 6:26:02 pm Derek Broughton wrote:

>> I used to hang out on the exim developers list, and the answer to that is
>> that MTA developers believe that GUIs are evil.  The prevailing opinion
>> was that if you make it easy to configure mail, idiots will be
>> configuring
>> mail.  My stock response was that idiots _are_ configuring mail, so we'd
> 
> This idiot configured a mailserver for his internal network with the help
> of a very fine man on this list. He helped me for days to understand
> postfix and the workings of a mailserver, and guess what?
> 
> I'm not an idiot anymore :-)

LOL.  I prefer to point out that you were merely ignorant.  Somebody smarter
than I, once said something to the effect that the difference between
ignorance and stupidity is that the former is easily curable (otoh, Frank
Zappa said "Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not... "). It's
great that your ignorance has been cured, but there's also the situation
where the point-haired boss, says "We need a mail server - you set it up". 
And he probably says it to the least capable employee he has, because the
_capable_ employees are either doing things he knows are more important, or
they are able to make him think they are :-)

> So In a way I sort of agree with the developers, BUT for a different
> reason and that is only because if there were a GUI to set up a
> mailserver, then I'd still be an idiot. LOL

And you're absolutely right.  The important detail though is that there are
_always_ going to be stupid people running mail systems (most of them are
working for ISPs) and we need to make it as hard as possible for them to
screw things up for the rest of us :-)

> But I also agree, that for those who want to remain idiot's then bring on
> the GUI. :-)
> 
> You see, there's always a bright side to something negative.

Yep!
-- 
derek