Re: Zmailer SMTP: Anal retentive or correct?

[Andy Poling <andy@realbig.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> > 	If you are the connection point for these UUCP hosts, then presumably
> > it's your responsibility to make sure that your router config file does the
> > right thing with the addresses you pass on.
> > 
> 
> Well, I naively thought that selecting using the router file
> SMTP+UUCP.cf which is supposed to provide for UUCP and SMTP mail would
> fullfill my responsibility...
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I think Matti has done wonders with maintaining
> zmailer, but this is clearly a bug and should be fixed.


No - it's not a bug.  It's a configuration issue.  That means it's your
problem.  You're supposed to know how to configure your mail system,
whatever software you're running.

Blaming Matti for not anticipating your desire to plug together two
incompatible mail systems (which is what you're doing) won't get you
anywhere.  

The sooner you sit down, read the RFCs, formulate a plan and execute it, the
sooner you'll have the problem solved.  And if you ask nicely (as opposed to
blaming everybody else) you might even get some helpful advice from the
folks who've dealt with this sort of stuff before.

Sorry - I just have a problem with people who expect everyone else to solve
their problems for free - especially when they cop an attitude.

-Andy

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