And not All admnistrators have the skills, or care to be programmers. Having at least a document with these errors would have saved hours and hours and hours over the last year(s) of working with xmail. It seems that it's better to make thousands of administrators struggle through the horrible docs and absense of errors messages, forever and ever, than to inconvenience one programmer one time and document it in a human readable manner. xmail is Great Software - but the struggles for troubleshooting are significant.
----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Anderson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:32 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail and Errors I hear you :) They are terrible and XMail is already light years ahead of them. I just think this is something that would really help admins track down the problem. The idea of having to open up Errors.h to find out that -105 is invalid or missing root domain is more than a lot of NT admins would be willing to do. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:15 PM To: XMail mailing list Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail and Errors On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Shawn Anderson wrote: > Davide, > I have a question, is there any chance that Xmail could place an > email in a specific account folder when something serious happens. > For example, I just have an admin testing a new tool for configuring > xmail's ..tab files and the tool caused all lines in the server.tab > file to be commented out. It took about a 1/2 hour to figure out why > we could check mail, but not send mail. It turns out that after > telneting into port 25, getting an error code of -105, then looking it > up in the source code, we found out that the root domain variable was > missing. This was a rather long process, and something as simple as a > main error log or and email put in the postmaster account would make > life a lot easier to track down this issues. > > What do you think? Do i really have to answer ? :-) Try to get sendmail/qmail/etc and try to screw up config files. Look at what kind of errors do you get. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
