[geeks] Help Please, Email server question.

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Wed Sep 4 17:16:03 CDT 2002


On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:19:47PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 20:28:22 (+0100), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] Help Please, Email server question.
> >
> > <excuse> it's a historical artifact and I don't like changing a working mail
> > system, they've just too damned delicate </excuse>
> one should avoid damaging fallout from change by doing regression
> testing and other good Q/A practices.

<excuse the second> I'm lazy </excuse>

Doing regression testing on mail is Hard because of all the dependencies on
other systems like DNS.  Not that I care much.

> Of course that doesn't stop me from often just doing "make install" on
> my home mail server after saving my latest hacks to my mail server
> code....  :-)

Ooh you big brave manly beast you.

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