MailScanner ignoring some rules

[Glenn Steen]

On 05/04/2008, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
>
>
>   > -----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.
vim/emacs (yeah, I'm weird that way... I use either... equally
well...) can do that for me. As said, whatever works for you:-).
vi/vim is always there... no need to scp anything anywhere... just to
tap-tap-tap away...:-)

>  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.
My users are heavily into Reuters, Bloomberg, SimCorp Dimension etc
etc (all big-wigs in the financial sector)... which are pretty much in
bed with M$ too. Frustrating, that... And the PHB has foisted (quite a
few years back) M-Sexchange on us... So in my case ... it is company
policy that decree I must do things this way. Sigh.
Compensating with a *lot* of alternative systems helps a bit though:-).

>  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
67 or 6-7?

>  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.
:-)
Love your Samba... And it'll love you:-)

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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