James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've received a couple of messages both on this list, and personal email
>that consistently suggest that I read the manual before posting here.
People usually do that when one asks a question that is clearly
answered by the documentation.
>Of course I realize that reading the manual, going through the steps of
>Life With Qmail or viewing the FAQs is the best first step.. but once one
>takes every step mentioned, and things STILL don't work, it's very hard to
>maintain calm as people *keep* suggesting that it's a good idea to read
>the manual.
Are you reading these documents carefully and understanding them, or
are you just skimming or not "getting it"?
>... For
>one example.. I have no idea as to why, when I sent a test message to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] during one hour it was rejected multiple times, then
>trying again 4 hours later it goes through just fine.. when I changed
>*nothing* at all on my server.
If you truly did change nothing--and I don't doubt you--then either
someone or something else did, or something not on your server changed
(such as DNS). qmail is not the slightest bit buggy, and unpredictable
behavior is not characteristic.
>And one other soapbox spew.. When I receive a question such as "Are you
>sure you are talking to [your ip address here]?" and I answer "How would I
>know?".. this doesn't mean I haven't tested ping, or whois, or
>whereis etc.. because I have, it means that if there is some *other* way
>of knowing, please tell me now.
If you mean "If there is some *other* way of knowing, please tell me
now", you'll be doing everyone a favor if you write it that way, and
not as "How would I know?". We deal with people whose experiences and
abilities are all over the spectrum, from complete newbie to kernel
hacker, and we don't know where you fall.
-Dave
