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 DATE : 2019.02.03
 TIME : 16:01
AUTHOR : SNOWCRASH
 MOOD : RELAXED
TITLE : HOW GOPHER FIXED MY EMAIL

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This is a phlog post about how gopher fixed my email. It sounds like an
odd thing for gopher to fix, but let me tell a story. When I joined
sdf.org I was excited to explore it's features, one of them being gopher.

As I began to explore the sfd phlogs I ran across sysdharma's phlog. I
really liked how he had his setup. This was before I had learned about
gophermaps and honestly only knew a bit about gopher. So I decided to
email him to ask him some questions.

I then proceeded to do what I should have done in the first place which
was to RTFM and actually do some research, but I'll give myself a pass
because I was really excited, his site looked awesome to me, and when you
work in computers and have tinkered with computers for over forty years,
those moments of excitement become way less often.

Anyway, back to how gopher fixed my email. A day or two passed and I had
not heard back from sysdharma but I was reading the sdf phlogs and saw
that he had an update. So I loaded up his phlog only to see:

 2019.02.02 - Re: @snowcrash/

Wait what? A phlog directed to me?

As it turns out there was a critical problem with my sdf.org email. The
sdf nospam function that enabled procmail it turns out should not be
usable by "user" level accounts (I've emailed sdf to ask about this)
despite being listed in the welcome emails.

By enabling it I had effectively broken all inbound mail to
[email protected]. I have to give kudos and thanks to sysdharma for
pointing this out to me, without his creative use of his gopher phlog as
a means to communicate directly with me, it might have been a long time
before I figured out that my email was fubar.

Anyway, that's my story, thanks for tuning in.

-Snowcrash

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