I hate it when I do stupid things. I installed the latest version of SpamAssassin last night, and it (or something) geeked up some mail a little bit. Nothing much, just a missing "F" at the start of a message in the inbox, but it's enough, given the fairly simple mbox format, to mush two mail messages together. And I wouldn't much care, but it was personal mail that got mushed.
Anyway, the simple answer's to edit the mailbox, which requires shutting down sendmail. (Can't edit if there's inbound mail, and I get a lot of inbound mail...) So I did. All is well and good, but for the next hour I'm wondering why I'm not getting any mail. Is the DSL down? Is the nameservice down? Is my ISP blocking inbound port 25?
'Course not. I just forgot to restart sendmail. D'oh!
Posted by Dan at June 18, 2002 12:24 PM