I've received a couple of messages both on this list, and personal email
that consistently suggest that I read the manual before posting here.
Of course I realize that reading the manual, going through the steps of
Life With Qmail or viewing the FAQs is the best first step.. but once one
takes every step mentioned, and things STILL don't work, it's very hard to
maintain calm as people *keep* suggesting that it's a good idea to read
the manual.
Just as those who have been around forever get upset with hearing the same
questions over and over, new users who follow proper steps and STILL have
problems also get tired of hearing about "reading the #$$% manual." For
one example.. I have no idea as to why, when I sent a test message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] during one hour it was rejected multiple times, then
trying again 4 hours later it goes through just fine.. when I changed
*nothing* at all on my server.
And one other soapbox spew.. When I receive a question such as "Are you
sure you are talking to [your ip address here]?" and I answer "How would I
know?".. this doesn't mean I haven't tested ping, or whois, or
whereis etc.. because I have, it means that if there is some *other* way
of knowing, please tell me now.
Many of you have been quite helpful, and I appreciate every answer in
reply because I know it takes time, your valuable time, to try and figure
out a problem.. but it also takes time and determination to decide to
weather out the problems for days in order to make one program work right.
Both sides should be commended for effort.
Whatever I learn on this list I will do what I can to give back to those
who have questions, or run into the same problems I have had here. And
even though I try to be thorough in my question posts, I guess I need to
be more thorough still with every step I have tried.. because I only ask
questions here AFTER I have tried every step I can find in either a FAQ or
HOWTO.
Again, thanks for all the help and please, some of you, try not to be so
hard on those of us asking seemingly trivial questions when often (or at
least in my case) hours have already been spent trying to figure out a
problem before coming here to ask for help.
James
