the possibly accurate nowTue, 27 Sep 2005
[09:29] Imagine I'm in stocks and you have a rotten tomato
Date: 9/27/05 at 5:29PM
Well, I'm all moved over to Andrews place now ('cept for this blog). I moved the mail over on Sunday night and, due to my misreading of the virtual mail setup page, I toasted Andrews sendmail config for a few hours. I am still feeling extremely contrite about this and not just a little bit stupid. I promised Andrew a public flagellation so, here it is:
T'was Sunday night when I sat down to make my changes. I added my standard fully qualified e-mail address as the default address to deliver mail to (by my reading the field was for a catch-all account) and tried to send a test message. I got an error message and the error was pretty obvious (in hindsight) as to the cause of the problem:
SMTP protocol diagnostic: 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset canonify
I didn't think anything of it at the time, I just thunk "Oh, Andrews got a sendmail problem" and sent him a message saying so, for some reason the dots didn't connect between me making mail changes and sendmail barfing everywhere. It was late, I went to bed.
About two or three in the morning I woke up and a thought popped into my head - "I wonder if
I caused that error by trying to deliver mail to myself back to myself", unfortunately I didn't get up and do anything about it (although I suspect that by then Andrew had fixed the "Operator Error" as he put it, back in his timezone). I got up in the morning and saw the explanation e-mail and felt like a particularly foolish, clueless dick (oops, there goes the PG rating).
So there you go, I'm a dunderhead and I'm really pissed that I didn't get up and go fix it when I realised what I'd done. Beating up on other peoples servers, even without malicious intent, is a Bad Thing.
I'm sorry Andrew, I've learned from my mistakes and will be moving to Tibet shortly to ponder my bunglings in a computerless cave with a gentleman by the name of Ransel Rinpoche who has promised, as an aid to contemplation, to flog me mercilessly for the next 50 years.
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