On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:05:35AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > You're the one that keeps bringing up 'accounts'. I keep asking what the > concept of an 'account' has to do with mailboxes.
Mail account. > Again, Steve, I have accounts on machines with no mailboxes. I have > mailboxes on machines with no accounts. I have MULTIPLE mailboxes on > machines with a single account. > You do NOT read from a pop3 'account', you read from a pop3 MAILBOX. And? A mail account can have sources from multuple "mailboxes" and a user account can have multiple mail accounts. > Hell, I'm smart enough to a) spot private replies and reply to them > privately. *Hint* my last mail to you was private. Hint, I figured it would have been to the list if I hadn't fat fingered my reply. > And b) I'm smart enough to only send each mail once, instead of mailing > it once as a private reply and then sending the exact same thing to a > list. Well, considering I have on every other message, one might reasonable surmise it was a mistake. > Heck, I'm even smart enough to NOT cc people on list mail unless they've > requested it. > Howzabout you Steve? Sorry, I'm not a machine like you that never, ever, EVER makes a mistake. > What seperates 'cat' from an MDA? cat doesn't know about dotlocks or > flock() or any of the other tricks expected of an MDA. That's it. Interesting all, really. None of which states that Exim doesn't fill the MDA role. I still await your points addressing that. > In fact, of course, the reason for a seperate root account IS for > accounting. Go look up words like 'accountability'. Oh, gee, and you were talking about my loaded words. What do most people think of when you say accounting? Especially in or near a sentence with "pay". > Because this 'workstation' also happens to be a server? Why forward it > to another machine? Just because you don't have a reason and find it silly does not mean there isn't a reason for it or that other people don't have those needs. > (Of course, I -could- if I wanted to, but that would be silly.) Maybe in your situation. Silly in all situations? > [*] > Score: -9999 > %Expires: > Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > %Score created by slrn on Wed Jul 15 10:39:39 1998 > An honored spot. Really? Wonder if you have [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well. > Yes, I should remember the words of WSB: "Never proffer sympathy to the > mentally ill, for theirs is a bottomless pit." (From "Words of Advice to > Young People"). You know, people who stoutly refuse that there is a problem when there so clearly is are often considered mentally ill. There is a problem in this scheme, Brian, no matter what your never-make-a-mistake self might think. I'll take your advice and consider you mentally ill from now on and act accordingly. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------