Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

[Joost van Baal]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:35:54PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > qmail-inject still doesn't work. If I echo to it the message just
> > vanishes. If I use mail (via the sendmail wrapper I presume) I get
> > an error.
> 
> That's because you overwrote it, fool! Remember when you tried to echo
> something > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject? Well, you overwrote the file
> with that (I was hoping it was a typo). Reinstall that file. In the
> future, use | instead of >.

Or: don't do things as root when you don't need root's permissions.

BTW, Howard, you said you were gonna implement POP3 and virtual users.
I wouldn't do this while sending and receiving "normal" mail is not
yet working.

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