Re: [cobalt-users] Pop before SMTP - I've had enough.

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

INRE Re: [cobalt-users] Pop before SMTP - I've had enough.:
> >  and/or nothing else
> > tells the sendmail program that the message is "ok".....
>
> Yes, but the fact that it's for local delivery should make it okay.
>

Jeff

  There-in lies the key.  Note my last line - if nothing else tells sendmail 
it is ok - which "implies" that his configuration is not recognizing its own 
domain name since the "test" for a "local" user/local domain is about 10 to 
15 lines further "UP" the file (before this test is done)....

  Since we don't have access to his system and configuration it is difficult 
to tell precisely, but it would appear something is "wrong" in "a" config 
somewhere.  I traced a problem for about an hour yesterday trying to figure 
out why an update program I was writing was not working.  It ran, but did not 
do the update for my radius servers.  Turns out it was as simple as "usre" 
vice "user" (note the typo) - easy to "see" once pointed out - difficult in 
pages of code or when "scanning".  Humans more often than not "see" what they 
expect to see vice what is actually there.  The old school test of a 
paragraph that has 12 "the" words in it - one of them a dupe (the the) and 
90% of those that "read" it will swear there are only 11 "the" words....

Larry Smith
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