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Don’t Talk to Me, I’m Not a Typewriter!
Not having sendmail is like not having VD.—Ron Heiby
Former moderator, comp.newprodDate: Thu, 26 Mar 92 21:40:13 -0800
From: Alan Borning <[email protected]>
To: UNIX-HATERS
Subject: Deferred: Not a typewriterWhen I try to send mail to someone on a Unix system that is down
(not an uncommon occurrence), sometimes the mailer gives a totally
incomprehensible error indication, viz.:Mail Queue (1 request)
--QID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- --------Sender/Recipient--------
AA12729 166 Thu Mar 26 15:43 borning
(Deferred: Not a typewriter)
[email protected]What on earth does this mean? Of course a Unix system isn’t a type-
writer! If it were, it would be up more often (with a minor loss in
functionality).