Comments on: A Welcome Nightmare

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:47:04 +0000

I had tested it and it worked (I forwarded the email it sent me to Olly as proof), but after someone rebooted the machine it went a bit crazy. Tis all working now tho =]

By: Olly

Olly — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:45:53 +0000

TBH, as much a you test, test and test more, it always still goes wrong.

Great it’s all fixed now. It’s giving us a lot more time to spend on support…..and I’m getting to play more games

By: Del Monte

Del Monte — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:25:09 +0000

Well done Rob & Carl for fixing the issues.

Keep in mind that Del Monte was not being patronising but truthful.

If Del Monte had not tested the system it may not have been noticed by staff but rather 100′s of angry customers.

By: Rob Mitchelmore

Rob Mitchelmore — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:23:23 +0000

I’d like to point out that the configuration change I made is in fact slightly incorrect; by my limited understanding of sendmail (oh please kill me) it should in fact be an MSA port, rather than an MTA port, but in the heat of the moment I didn’t do that. It seems to work, but I think MSA ports do a different set of checks on the mail.

Sendmail isn’t my preferred choice of MTA (I prefer the ‘writing small notes and post-it-ing them to the person’s forehead’ school of message delivery’), so I beg pardon for this lapse and when convenient I’ll pop in and change it.

I still maintain any software that has a configuration file that looks *like that* (sendmail users will know what I mean) cannot have been designed by anyone entirely sane.

Just in case any pedants are reading .