I was having problems with postfix accepting a message that was addresses to 57,000 BCC’d recipients and was at a loss as to what was causing the problem.  I foolishly didn’t have verbose logging enabled before sending the message, so I didn’t have much in the way of logs.  Now, how to debug this without possibly sending lots of testing messages to the entire student body of the University.  Google wasn’t giving me anything, but I finally found the answer and am writing it down in the hopes that it helps someone.  What I wound up doing was setting up a content filter on the snmp service that redirects the mail to the discard service.

Change your smtp configuration to look like the following, then run /etc/init.d/postfix reload


smtp      inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
-o content_filter=discard:dummy


Now I’m just waiting for the authorization to send some test messages to see if postfix accepts the mass mail successfully.

I used to walk to the corner almost every day for lunch when I worked at Gilmer Hall. Since moving over to ITC and not walking to work anymore, I try to eat a small lunch at my desk most days. The past couple of days I’ve gotten to eat out again. We’ve had engineers from Aruba Networks on-site and they like to eat out for lunch. Yay, my favorite!

Dragon Lady is a decent Chinese restaurant about a block away. We went there as a group of eight. I ordered the Hunan Beef and enjoyed it. They make good food, though I think I prefer Taiwan Garden for nearby Chinese food.

Today, a smaller group of us, only four this time, walked to the corner and ate at Lemongrass. I ordered chicken Pad Thai spicy. I hadn’t had the pad thai in a while so I didn’t really remember what it was like, but it didn’t dissapoint. One of the engineers ordered a community plate of spring rolls and satay. The saytay tasted breaded and fried, kinda’ weird, but I love the spring rolls. Good stuff. Everyone seemed to enjoy their meals.