Performance

[Glenn Steen]

On 02/02/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen spake the following on 2/1/2007 5:59 PM:
> > On 02/02/07, Peter Russell <pete at enitech.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> > (snip)
> >> As you say, after i posted it i did some further research and found it
> >> was just a warning - thanks for the explanation.
> > :-)
> >> >> I will leave off making any more MTA changes until one of the clever
> >> >> cloggs can post up some tips...
> >> > Um, english parser breakdown... Isn't a clogg a sort of wooden shoe?
> >> > And a clever clogg is then an intelligent footwear? Sort of an AI for
> >> > pedestrian appliances?:-)
> >>
> >> Well i didnt wanna say geeks - but there you go you have forced me. :)
> > Why thank you... Such high praise...:-):-).
> >
> >>
> >> I made some changes to my main.cf and then telnet in to my server from
> >> another network, i can get through helo, MAIL FROM with false info - no
> >> warnings, errors or disconnects. Any idea where i am going wrong? (i
> >> have exclude all my pre existing transport map, relay domains type
> >> config) Appreciate any tips or suggestions.
> >> Pete
> > To my tired eyes (it's almost 02.00 here) it looks ok, so it would
> > depend on the content of the file I guess... You did remember to
> > postmap it (and reload postfix after the changes to main.cf)?
> > With a little luck (all the luck I didn't have today... SSL-X logged
> > itself to death (audit f a failed message just kept repeating) and was
> > ornery about the license file while updating on new HW, Oracle was
> > just as Oracle can be, the doctor kept me waiting (well, nothing new
> > there:-) and pesky users kept interrupting about me helping them with
> > their *private* WLAN/DSL installs (as if I was going home to them and
> > doing their LAN... Well, perhaps if sufficient amounts of finer booze
> > was at the end of it:), so that I never got any time to install the
> > latest and greatest MS... Grrr.) I'll have time to look at it again in
> > the morning (today).
> >
> > Tired but kind regards
> I get a lot of that "personal" pestering, too. If you tell them up front you
> are going to charge them, and make the price high enough, you will stop about
> 90% of it. The other 10% is beer money! ;-)
> Just set your rate high enough to be worth your time.

Trust me, I'm not cheap... The dang thing is that working in the
financial sector... quite a few of them can actually afford it:-). So,
since I really don't want to be straddled with their problems, I tend
to ... exaggerate a bit more:-).

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-- Glenn
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