Charles on… anything that comes along

OK, in moving from one computer to another, and doing the same for the wife, here’s what I’ve learned:

1) when Eudora tries to check mail and says “Not enough disk space to do that”, it means that you’ve got a conflict between the Eudora settings and the file from which you launched Eudora. Rename the old file to “Eudora settings” and you should be away. Or perhaps you locked the settings file.

ORr maybe you really don’t have enough disk space, but that’s really unlikely.

2) Postfix, once configured, is great. However, when it’s not working (and giving you “name service errors”) it’s a pig to get working.

I’m getting mail error messages from the Postfix output log saying (in part) “relay=none, delay=82, status=deferred (Name service error for name=mac.com type=MX: Host not found, try again)“. That’s what I’m getting, and I’m perplexed. I wish I knew what magic I’m missing in the settings. As far as I know, I’ve got the same setup as before, and it’s not working.

Update 11:10pm: OK, sorted it. The problem was that I didn’t have any DNS entries in my Network Prefs, so the poor mailer couldn’t look up any addresses. Now those are entered, it’s sending out a flood of previously queued messages. Let’s hope this helps other people.

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