The Goldfish Chronicles

The latest and hopefully the last in this story. I removed the source postfix and upgraded to the debian supplied version. I managed to lose the copy of the configuration I’d made, but fortunately I have somewhat of a backup system in place that let me easily get the old configuration. Some pain with aptitude as a mail server _has_ to be installed so I had to swap postfix/exim a few times until things were good.

Lesson’s learned?

• Correct names for backups can be dangerous. Copy /etc/postfix to /root/postfix doesn’t protect it from the stupid locate postfix | xargs rm.

Special moments?

• Googling for answers to the spamassassin/perl error, only to find my blog and an email in catalan as the only hits. The Internet suddenly seems a very lonely place.
• Clicking on the icon for the backup system’s windows share and being asked for a password. Like I had a clue. SSH keys to the rescue.

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