Rick,
> Pete
>
> I'm glad it's working well for you, but your response is frustrating.
> On the rare occasion I post to any kind of list to seek help with a
> problem, invariably several people will pipe in with something that
> more or less says, "Works fine for me." Well, good, but that's not
> helpful to those of us for whom it isn't working.
I have a feeling that they are just trying to tell you that there maybe
something else you should look at. ie: some of these problems might not
specifically be Post.Office's fault. more below...
>
> Good luck with your server, though.
>
> Rick
>
> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Peter Haase wrote:
>
....
>>
>> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Sue Chester wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:21 AM, Rick Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks to all of you who responded with excellent instructions. I'll
>>>> work on a CRON job for backups today.
>>>>
>>>> Futzing around with this kind of thing is fun when the usual tech
>>>> demands aren't weighing on me; it stimulates my gray matter. But in
>>>> a time crunch, I don't have time to seek Unix help. Tenon, we need a
>>>> GUI for ALL of it, including reading the log files. I know about
>>>> Logmaster and other utilities, but again, in a time crunch . . . I
>>>> need to know there a problems before my end users do.
These items are coming. We are trying to satisfy the needs of our users as
quickly as possible.
>>>>
>>>> My company thought it was hiring an expert when they got me, and
>>>> they did . . . with MACS! It doesn't give them much faith to see me
>>>> constantly having to turn to Tenon or the wider UNIX community to
>>>> work out the seemingly endless string of voodoo with our mail
>>>> server. Give us check boxes, drop down menus, pop up alerts, email
>>>> alerts.
>>>>
>>>> Tenon, please! When I read that ISPs ran on Post.Office, and you
>>>> guys told me an iMac was more than adequate for a workgroup of 20, I
>>>> thought, "Man, this is the server for me." Instead, I have become a
>>>> babysitter, and to make it worse, the business types in my company
>>>> are asking, "Duh, why don't we just get an Exchange server?"
>>>
>>> In my personal opinion, you are experiencing problems that I have not
>>> seen in my several years of experience in supporting Post.Office.
>>> For so many customers, setting up Post.Office is about the last they
>>> have to think about the product. Normally, Post.Office simply runs.
>>> It's a very stable product.
>>> We would like to get to the bottom of the problem that you're having
>>> with Post.Office. Since I haven't isolated the problem yet, it's
>>> hard for me to tell you what is causing it. I have faith that I
>>> can find out, however, and it can be resolved. If so, you wouldn't
>>> need to use many UNIX skills and you wouldn't need to babysit the
>>> product.
>>> I apologize that you are having these problems, and I am trying to
>>> isolate the cause.
>>>>
>>>> Venting here. I simply wanted a UNIX-strength little mail server
>>>> that would just sit and run and run and run. Instead, I have
>>>> repeatedly dealt with the following:
>>>>
>>>> SMTP that mysteriously stops
As far as I know, no other customers have had this problem. Is this still an
issue?
>>>> Webedge installer that changed my hostconfig file, removing
>>>> references to Post.Office.
>>>> IMAP and POP before SMTP can't coexist
We are looking into any Pop before SMTP problems. I am not sure what this
means though. are you saying that there is no IMAP before SMTP, or that
IMAP breaks POPbefore SMTP?
>>>> Tracking down why we couldn't send mail through Webedge
>>>> Relay denied when sending to multiple recipients
>>>> SPAM! And using filters slows the server to a crawl.
You probably used a character that is reserved for regular expressions.
check the FAQ for a list of these. the most common are "?" or "-".
>>>> Being used as a relay by spammers. Still not sure that it's fixed.
This is a very important issue. use ordb.org to check your server.
Post.Office ships as closed relay. please see:
http://www.tenon.com/faq/faq.php?display=faq&nr=34&catnr=5&prog=3.5.3&lang=e
n&onlynewfaq=1
for details.
>>>> Never got a secondary server to work. NEVER worked. Sue looked at
>>>> it, too. NEVER worked! Why?
This should be fairly simple. What is not working about it?
http://www.tenon.com/faq/faq.php?display=faq&nr=7&catnr=5&prog=3.5.3&lang=en
&onlynewfaq=1
Please continue to let us know when you have problems.
--Eric
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