MailScanner ignoring some rules

[Rick Cooper]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Scott Silva
 > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:45 PM
 > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
 > Subject: Re: MailScanner ignoring some rules
 > 
 > on 4-4-2008 3:26 PM Rick Cooper spake the following:
 > >  
 > > 
 > >  > -----Original Message-----
 > >  > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > >  > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > >  > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
 > >  > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:20 PM
 > >  > To: MailScanner discussion
 > >  > Subject: Re: MailScanner ignoring some rules
 > >  > 
 > >  > Sorry all, for the top post... a bit too tipsy to really 
 > >  > safely (snip)
 > >  > with even a virtual scissor...:-)
 > >  > 
 > >  > That all _looks_ mostly OK... So, plan B... You've 
 > never used another
 > >  > system to edit the MailScanner.conf or rules file? Like crappy
 > >  > windoze? If so, there might be "non-printable" 
 > characters on the end
 > >  > of the line (like a spurious <CR>)... Then again, I thought 
 > >  > the --lint
 > >  > would catch that... Oh well.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Cheers
 > >  > -- Glenn
 > > 
 > > Hey, Glenn, 99.9% of the time I edit all my *nix files 
 > with a windows only
 > > program. Boxer text editor. Been using it since it was a 
 > little dos pup.
 > > It's a really nice editor geared primarily towards 
 > programming and it
 > > handles DOS, Unix and MAC files as it sees them and I have 
 > the default save
 > > mode set to unix. Since I haven't the luxury of choosing 
 > my primary desktop
 > > OS I find boxer invaluable as all my servers (except 3 
 > vendor managed
 > > specialty servers) are Linux boxes and with it's built in 
 > ftp open/save and
 > > projects I can't imagine living without it.
 > > 
 > > BTW: You have given me a great idea, instead of worrying 
 > about running out
 > > of my Oxicotin, Percocet and vicodon I should just grab a 
 > bottle of Jack or
 > > 151 and I bet I can keep the pain down all weekend long 
 > without a single
 > > pill! ;->)
 > > 
 > >I usually use winscp to access and edit my systems if I 
 > don't just ssh in with 
 > putty and us vim on them.
 > I too have to be stuck on a windows machine because that is 
 > what my user base 
 > is on. I can't have something better, they would get jealous!!
 > 
 > But I'm on the same page with the "liquid painkiller"!!  ;-P
 > 
 > Now just an hour on the train and 10 minutes to home, and I'm there..
 > 
 > 
 > Hurry up 5:00!!!
 > 


Putty is a life saver in the windows world for sure. I do system maint and
such via putty but I like the syntax highlighting and block operations,
macros and so forth of a real programmer's editor and Boxer is just hands
down the best I have yet to see.

It's not a corporate thing that keeps me on windows so much as vendors. For
instance the 7 Ford Dealerships the company owns. Ford is totally in bed
with Microsoft products so without running windows a technician cannot even
access shop manuals or the online tech bulletins. Almost all our banking and
finance vendors use ActiveX over Java so there goes accounting and finance.
I bitch to vendors all the time because were it not for them there wouldn't
be a windows box in the company.

Interesting note, we have a older CRM application written in MS access that
used to keep the data files on a window based box and it was constantly
locking up and crashing daily, multiple times, with six ti seven users. They
updated to windows XP, same thing. I moved the data to one of the Samba
servers and have never had a call yet in nearly three years, I almost forget
that department exists now.

Rick


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