Hi Jürgen,
Wow, you have described my life! :-)
See also mail:
Subject: Re: [jira] Commented: (JAMES-648) Corrupted MIME message [...]
Sent: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:25:01 +0200
really I am surprised.
Thanks,
Guillermo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jürgen Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Developers List" <server-dev@james.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: Change in policy to for JAMES to violate RFCs
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So you search the net. You know Java, you find JAMES. You read about it,
and hey, this is exactly what you need. So you download it, test it a
bit,
and say woohooo this is what I need. This is in most cases only the first
step. The next burden is, that you have to tell your boss about it. He
says "Nah, why should I change something that is working?" The Admin
says,
"because it can do what postfix does, ... AND MORE!" Boss: "Well ok, let
us give it a try."
That described, the sysadmin installs JAMES, gets it up and running, and
shows his boss. Boss is pleased until the next morning. The freaking
automatic E-Mail is missing, "Admin! The billing did not run, I did not
receive the status Mail!!! Check this immediatly!". The Admin checks, the
Job ran, but no Mail. WHY Lord WHY? "Oh I know, I installed the James
Server. Let me check the Logs." "Hmmm, there is it. Aha, it is not RFC
compliant. Boss, I found the problem! The Status Mail was not RFC
Compliant!" Boss: "Huh? What the ... well, then fix it!" That said, he
keeps thinking "What is the RFC?"
So the Admin goes on, and checks the configuration, maybe he missed
something. nope, everything there. So he opens up a bug report. He gets
told "This is no Bug, this is a feature!". He suggests "Can we make it
configurable? I really love James, and would really like to use it... I
even wrote a patch!" The Commiters say "Hey, cool yes. We can do that ...
wait, no we can't, because we break the RFC, and we really do not want
that, sorry"
So the Admin goes, tells his boss, what he was told, and the Boss says
"Well, if we cannot do it with JAMES, put the other stuff back online!"
The Admin tries to consider James one more time, "... but Boss, the nice
Extensibility, Mail Processing" Boss: "Admin! Enough of that Nonsense!
You
said it could do what the old setup did, and MORE! Not LESS! Leave it
with
the old setup!".
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Kind regards
Juergen Hoffmann
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