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Re: Just discovered big bug!



On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > I have to read that.

Did that now.

> Still the default behaviour should not mean you lose mail. I would vote
> for switching antispam off by default. If you are hit by spam you can 
> switch it on later.

Yes, I'm completely with you. We do not install any anti-spam software by
default and without telling the user either. 

After all if I ran into this after 6 or 7 years of Linux experience there's
quite a good chance beginners will run into it too.

> It's too easy to have the smtp processor rejecting mails. I think even the
> default sendmail configuration for local delivery only did not accept mail
> to localhost. At least fetchmail was unable to deliver (lucky me I had 
> noflush set ;))

Couldn't agree more.

Michael
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