email failure (was: mock fail under F20)

[Richard Vickery]

Hi Suvayu, and anybody else who cares - assuming that Suvayu cares - about the issue:

This is originally how this server has set the return mail as; I can possibly talk to the university computer people about fixing the program so that I can have the option of bottom-post correctly, such that it is readable. I switched from Gmail because, as I stated a few weeks ago, I no longer like Google using my information - without, at lest, paying me for it. I will talk to them on after the weekend about making it easier to read, and it will not be fixed in a day; maybe a week; maybe a month - possibly more than a month; institutions tend to move at the speed of a tortoise.

If anyone knows of an email server I can use until I get a break, can find and read my Linux books on setting up an old Pentium Celeron box that at the moment has Microsoft's shit on it with a mail server, or can pick a Linux server up, that allows me to bottom-post it would be a big help. Else I may have to continue appoligising until I find a solution. Back when I was just learning Linux, had I paid more attention to mail-servers - knowledge I didn't need at the time - I might be able to put that knowledge to good use today beside the political science degree I am pursuing.

Perhaps I can find someone to assist me in turning my box - as opposed to the folding computer I am using - into a mail-server.

Regards,
Richard

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> 
To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org 
Sent: Friday, 17 January, 2014 13:48:21 
Subject: Re: mock fail under F20 

Hi Richard, 

Two comments: 

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:28:25AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: 



-- 
^^^^^^ 


Lately all your posts seemed like accidental sends before completely 
composing the whole message to me. Today I realised why. 

You are using "-- " to separate your response from the quote above. 
Please try not to do that, many email clients (specially the historic 
ones), treat that string as a marker for the signature. Some people 
might have setups where signatures are stripped; in my case, they are 
shown in a different colour so that I am not distracted by long sigs. 
Because of your use of that string, all your messages were appearing 
empty to me. Just sharing my thought, maybe you want to use a different 
string. 


<blockquote>
Hi Frank: 

When I tried to wget the file, I get the following, after which there it would be pointless to follow with the mock command: 

bash: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/gnome-bluetooth/3.11.3/1.fc21/src/gnome-bluetooth-3.11.3-1.fc21.src.rpm: No such file or directory 

Now on-topic: are you sure you called wget properly? From the error 
</blockquote>

message it seems to me somehow bash thought the url was something else, 
maybe there was a stray newline preceding the url? 

Cheers, 

-- 
Suvayu 

Open source is the future. It sets us free. 
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