Postfix help needed

[David McGlone]

On Friday 30 November 2007 7:02:52 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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 :-)

Very good point.
>
> > 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 :-)

That's true. It's funny how I've worked with computers for about 12 years 
99.9% being M$ and I never once bothered learning how to run a mailserver.

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David M.
 
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