[OT] postfix and multiple domains help

[Mark Haney]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>> Mike Burger:
>>>>>>> See my reply in the redhat list.
>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK the redhat list has been dead for some years, its need would 
>>> have passed along with RHL9.
>>>
>>> I could see no clue that the OP had posted to any other list; had 
>>> such a clue existed I would have ignored the whole thing.
>>>
>>> Had I been the first to reply, odds are good I'd have told OP where 
>>> to go.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I'm the OP.  Yes, I DID post this on the RH list, which is quite 
>> active BTW.  Yes, the system I'm working on IS RHEL.  However, this 
> 
> I'm surprised (and yes, I have checked).
> 
>> problem not being STRICTLY a RHEL problem, I posted it to both the RH 
>> and Fedora lists.  Why?  Because postfix runs on both platforms and my 
>> hope was to find ANYONE that might have an idea, since I'd exhausted 
>> all my other resources.  I could have lied and said that this was a 
>> Fedora system and would anyone have known the difference?  No.  I've 
>> posted problems in here (and I'm sure others have) that aren't 
>> strictly Fedora related, just to find HELP.  I don't want to be on a 
>> list for every distro and application I use, who does?  It's overload. 
>> Most of us use more than one distro, most of us use the same basic set 
>> of applications, so why not go where there might be help?
>>
>> You know, there used to be a time when a post like this wasn't flame 
>> bait.  It was either resolved in a friendly manner (and I do thank 
>> Mike Burger for the reply) or taken off-list to be resolved.  I'm 
>> really rather disappointed at the vehement nature of an in ceasing 
>> portion of the posts ( and, indeed, replies) on this list.  Bad 
>> attitudes seem to be becoming more and more the norm around here.
> 
> A lot of people reckon posting the same question to different lists is 
> bad form. That aside, my comment was not directed at you; the people 
> reading this list now are not the only ones who benefit from its 
> contents, I often turn up answers on lists by using Google. Generally 
> anyone following Google to an archive of this list might not recognise 
> that the question's answered on another list, thinking that both 
> archives are the same.
> 
>>
>> In future I will be more selective in what I post here, as well as in 
>> who I decide to try to help.
> 
> That's good, but don't let misunderstanding prevent your helping others.
> 

Ah.  I stand corrected.  I do apologize for the misunderstanding.  It's 
the weather here (I'm in NC) it's thrown me off. :)


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