[PLUG] Xubuntu/Thunderbird Outbound Mail

wes plug at the-wes.com
Fri Aug 29 20:13:13 UTC 2008


On 8/29/08, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, wes wrote:
>
> > So? do it anyway, see what happens. :)
> > You'll never learn anything by being confident.
>
> wes,
>
>   However, if I FUBAR my mail server then I'll never get it fixed because I
> cannot read or write messages. Perhaps I'm a wimp, but I try to avoid
> running system-level executables when I don't understand what they do. I
> leave that to folks running non-essential systems.
>
> Rich


 Well, you're right of course, but, it's already broken - you're not likely
to break it more by poking at it.

I did say "likely" which means you don't do that on a production system.

(Actually I do that sometimes - shhhhh don't tell anyone!)

-wes



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