Just Found Out...Mail's Not Being Queued

[lwood]

Apparently, my backup mail exchanger is not queueing up e-mails for my domains like it's supposed to.

That means that instead of mail being held on the other server until I come online and can catch it, it's all bounding.

...I fail. I fail so bad.

However, I should reiterate that all your old stuff is fine; the failure of new stuff to properly accumulate is the fault of another guy who I should not have trusted for this long; he's let me down before, but I tend to trust past reason and out to fault.

I was in the middle of doing the restore, and asked countgeiger to help move the system configuration files to a place where we could go through them carefully and incorporate the old customizations into the current state of the art... and he was playing WoW while he heard me, and WoW while he did it, and has had a crazy week at work, so he ran right over the real configuration files instead, rendering the system an immediate and unusable mess.

Which meant I had to start the entire rebuild from scratch.

He's sorry.

That's nice.

I'm the one up until three-thirty.

When I nearly had a barebones system up to where I could customize it, I made a wrong choice, and made the system unbootable again. Easier to start yet another rebuild than chase the module loading error through the backwoods.

Things will work as soon as I can make them so; knowing now that mail isn't being properly queued on my backup mail exchanger has hit me quite hard on top of the rest of the evening's setbacks. I shall start dropping other committments, in light of this, so that things may be brought back online as soon as possible, and that, in turn, you can all move your e-mail someplace more reliable; not that I'm turning anything off, but I'm clearly not to be trusted.

Well.

At least it was nice to visit the Sea.

-- Lorrie

Comments

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I realize you've had sleep, and that ye and he are taking care of the problem now.

'strewth. That was a "wah I suck" 3am message of the classic form. I woke up, realized as much, and went about my day.

We've known each other a while: Good, bad and indifferent. You're good people, Lorrie. Don't let anyone tell you you aren't.

Hey, thanks! I appreciate that!

Or, of course, you could send them to me for a thorough ass-flaming. <G.> They'd get it.

Hey, D'troit, while I grant you've had a tougher row to hoe than I ever did, they didn't exactly raise pansies in Cleveland either--but I do appreciate it. It's always so much fun to be handed a delegate flame, one need worry so much less about the aftereffects...

Take care. Better geek luck with the next iteration. Personally, I find it helps to keep a rubber chicken (RFC2321) plugged into my network.

*cough* As noted elsewhere, my network wanted a rat skull onnastick--the stick is an old Palm stylus, it's set in a cheery polymer clay base in which I have inscribed highly appropriate verse composed for the occasion in the runes of the Elder Futhark.

I take a lot in stride, but, as walkyrja succinctly puts it, "you fuck with my village, you're going down."

The userspace hackers of a couple years ago had definitely done that...so I did it and then wrote all about it for publication in Idunna, which gets appreciative nods from magically inclined geeks, and, well, the folks who thought me crazy now feel themselves satisfied. 8-)

Name service is now working; next is the three-ring circus of mail daemon (postfix), content scanner (amavisd-new with corollary virus scanner clam and spam scanner SpamAssassin), and mailing list software (Ecartis, which I like better than mailman, and not just because it was written by an ex-boyfriend).

Over the course of the next week, the web services will come back online.

Not that you're invested, but as you gave me the necessary gentle fwap for my midnight kweebling, I figured you should know. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Hey, D'troit, while I grant you've had a tougher row to hoe than I ever did, they didn't exactly raise pansies in Cleveland either

Never crossed my mind that they did. Cleveburg has its reputation for a reason, y'know?

I was in Flint for a couple weeks, recently. Holy Hel. Looked like her lower half. (No offense to her, of course.)

As noted elsewhere, my network wanted a rat skull onnastick--the stick is an old Palm stylus, it's set in a cheery polymer clay base in which I have inscribed highly appropriate verse composed for the occasion in the runes of the Elder Futhark.

iNiding Pole? Thought that was supposed to be a horse's skull. Or was that the vacuum tube version?

Glad everything will be on line shortly. I've faith in you, FWIW.

[ivy]

so I did it and then wrote all about it for publication in Idunna, which gets appreciative nods from magically inclined geeks, and, well, the folks who thought me crazy now feel themselves satisfied. 8-)

Is there an online version of this? I'd be interested. [grin]