Cygon’s Blog

It’s been a really bad weekend for me. Friday evening I seriously bruised my foot after jumping from a stone staircase and landing at an angle. I couldn’t use the back of my foot for the whole weekend.

Thus, when I went shopping on Saturday, I parked just in front of the store inmidst of all the cheap family cars. And just after I had finished shopping, when I had pulled out again and was about to drive off, someone in the parking space to the right of me had the brilliant idea to skip that tedious head-turning before pulling out. He hit my car into the side.

The repairs will come in at about € 2,000 ($2,740 US) and leave me without a car for two weeks. And just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, the driver was phoned by my car dealer today, where he replied that he didn’t feel responsible.

I didn’t want to make a fuss and require a signed statement with names of witnesses. Well, my bad. I left a chance open for the guy to slip away and he took it. He could as well have claimed I power-drifted sideways into his car :]

Lession learned, life goes on…

I already tried getting rid of Qmail <a href=”#”>about one year ago</a>, for various reasons. Today, while scanning my logs, I discovered that for the past 2 days, qmail was happily distributing emails to unheard-of recipients, most likely SPAM.

Holy fricking cr*p! I hate HATE H-A-T-E ! ! spam and now I find that this stupid piece of sh*t is sending out unsolicited emails.

Probably I’m to blame because of some configuration issue. I’m just so happy having chosen an email client that, after a year of running, still isn’t configured 100% secure and pops up new issues. The qmail handbook tells me that part of the motivation for writing qmail was to create an email server that was safe by default instead of requiring an expert admin (like sendmail supposedly did). Is the SMTP protocol really so crude and complicated that any SMTP server has to be a nightmare to set up?

Is there any other SMTP server where I can get smtp time spam rejection to work?
Would it be better if I just dumped my personal email domain and switched to gmail?

Maybe I’ll give courier another try. Looked very good (althought still needlessly complicated if you ask me), but I capitulated when I tried to set up SpamAssassin at SMTP time through some Perl nonsense.