From: Alex Satrapa (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 00:32:11 EST
On 17 Feb 2006, at 06:18, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> I tossed off a terse "tell it to Redhat" response. Deciding that
> was lame I went
> to the postfix.org site to search for testimonials and the like.
> Didn't find any.
Testimonials are only really useful to reinforce the positive opinion
of someone who wants to be convinced that your solution is the right
way to go. That is, the mindset of someone who believes testimonials
is, "I'm still a bit doubtful that making this choice will make me
happy, but these testimonials are full of shiny happy people holding
hands, so I now feel happy that I'm going to make the decision to use
this product or service!"
The best way to convert someone is to see that they have identified a
problem, and show how that problem would be solved with the product
that you are championing. Then leave it to them to figure out that
your product is easier/quicker/more likely to satisfy their KPIs and
operate in coherence with their corporate goals.
Problem: "hand-editing all these configuration files is a pain - how
am I supposed to get my relay servers to handle spam rejection the
same way based on known users?"
Answer: "Use LDAP. Configure recipient_canonical_maps and
sender_canonical_maps, make sure you use smtpd_sender_restriction and
smtpd_recipient_restrictions."
Problem: "I'm having a problem getting greylisting to work... my M4
files are [insert 4 pages of M4 macro]..."
Answer: "Use postfix. Append 'check_policy_service inet:
127.0.0.1:60000' to the smtpd_sender_restrictions, and run the
greylist policy daemon listening on that port."
... of course, only propose solutions to the problem at hand. And
make sure you try them yourself first. Nothing sucks as much as
giving advice that doesn't work.
Alex
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