On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Marcus Felipe Pereira wrote: > This config OPTION is what I suggested two days ago. > > Compiling the full Courier package (mta, authdaemon, tcpd, pop, > imap, sqwebmail and maildrop) is very painful for many people.
patch -p1 < ../patch... make *MY FLESH!!* > I see only advantages if this patch is used on the main > Courier package. Disadvantage: MUAs exhibit strange behavior and sometimes crash due to badly formated mail. Support calls get escalated to admins. We gripe. The problem continues and repeats. Honestly, the strict RFC compliance is one of the things I like best about Courier. If that one thing prevents you from using the MTA, there's no shortage of others that support maildirs, LDAP, etc. Once you start making exceptions (hacks) to bow down and support buggy clients, where do you decide to stop? It's already been done for MUA clients with the configure "workaround" option. (Which is the only argument I can make for adding such a patch for RFC error checking: courier makes exceptions for others) Sometimes I think that clients get all the leeway when it comes to blame because servers don't have pretty icons to smile back at the users. Why else does no one suggest fixing the problem at its source? This is exactly the reason that RMS demands the source to all of the software he uses. PS: I know <em>somebody</em> isn't going to get the joke. You see: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-01-04&res=l -- If I had a dollar for every brain that you don't have, I'd have one dollar. - Squidward to SpongeBob _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
