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                              Yet another Day 10

It was a crazier day at The Office [1] and I wasn't even at The Office; I was
working at home.

And it's official—Ihate sendmail [2], dovecot [3] and saslauth [4].

I think the pinnacle of the mess was this lovely bit of sendmail—from the
configuration file /etc/mail/access on the server as installed:

# Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
# of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
# The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
# package.
#
# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost             RELAY
127.0.0.1             RELAY

And the format of said file from /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf:

The table itself uses e-mail addresses, domain names, and network
numbers as keys.  Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:".
For example,

       From:[email protected]                    REJECT
       From:cyberspammer.com                   REJECT
       Connect:cyberspammer.com                REJECT
       Connect:TLD                             REJECT
       Connect:192.168.212                     REJECT
       Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7             RELAY
       Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4       REJECT

Notice anything … different … about the two?

Hmmmm?

Yeah.

XXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX piece of XXXX!

I think I got it working (the reason I think I have it working is that I have
no easy way of actually testing this crap! All my email (both work and
personal) is checked on the respective email servers locally, using mutt
since I find it faster that way. I don't use POP (Post Office Protocol) or
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). While POP is pretty easy to test
using telnet, IMAP isn't. Toss in SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) AUTH
(which goes from difficult to downright impossible to test via telnet) and
I'm practically forced to use some bloated piece of XXXX like [DELETED-
Lookout-DELETED] Outlook. Or Thunderbird [5], which makes me pine for the
days of checking my email as 1200 baud).

(Can you tell this stuff makes me rather cranky?)

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/11/01.3
[2] http://www.sendmail.org/
[3] http://www.dovecot.org/
[4] http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/downloads.html#sasl
[5] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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