Good vs. Evil

[Someone Else 37]

100 Yay for unhelpful error messages...

 

[lenscas]

51 and now I was wondering why my application didn't send a mail to lenscas@localhost.....
It helps if I am actually looking at the mail on the same computer as the one that sends it when using localhost as the location it needs to send stuff to >_<

Hooray for working through ssh and forgetting about that fact

 

[Someone Else 37]

52 So... uhm, what?

 

[lenscas]

53 on a standart Debian install you can read "mail" that got onto your system. The project I work on needs to send an activation link when you made an account. I haven't hooked this up yet to a real mail server as I am lazy thus it uses the mail system from debian to "send" mails. Obviously they can only stay at localhost and the thing before the @ is equal to the user name.

Another thing is that I often work remotely on school projects when I am home as the project is already stored on my laptop (due to me working on them at school). This way I don't need to copy the database and files over to my desktop and back each time I need to switch from computer. This is done very easily as the filemanager I use can mount sftp-servers as pretty much normal drives allowing almost every application I use to work with said server.

The derp I made was that I was using mutt to check for the mail it should have send on my desktop, instead on my laptop which was supposed to send it to localhost. So...the program worked, I was just looking at the wrong computer >_>

 

[Someone Else 37]

54 So the server sent the email to itself, rather than your local computer, and then you checked your local computer for emails and it wasn't there because it never left the server. Got it.

 

[erindalc]

55 Well done technology

 

[lenscas]

56 well, it was supposed to never leave the server. In fact I have been in that situation more times now then I can remember >_<
That is one of the things I don't like this setup, that and not being able to download stuff directly from the internet to the server but those minor "problems" are by far outclassed by the benefits of this setup

 

[Someone Else 37]

57 Can you remotely check the server's emails?

 

[lenscas]

58 yes, just log into it with a terminal and ssh and the "server" is my laptop so that is also not a problem

 

[Someone Else 37]

59 I guess that works.

 

[duckfan77]

88 Ooh. Just a new one or does it do more than the old one?

Very much more than the old one. It is this. The old one tended to lose track of direction on its own without any interference.
58 you ninja's

 

[erindalc]

Very much more than the old one. It is this. The old one tended to lose track of direction on its own without any interference.
58 you ninja's

59 Dang that's a nice one

 

[duckfan77]

58 Now just to make it work

 

[Someone Else 37]

59 Well, you've got the hardware; the rest would just be software, right?

 

[erindalc]

60 Yep. Which is duckfan's job iirc.

 

[Someone Else 37]

61 If I was on an FRC team, there's a decent chance it'd be me.

 

[erindalc]

62 Didn't you do FTC?

 

[duckfan77]

61 Yep, it would be my job to do the software.

 

[erindalc]

62 Reason

 

[lenscas]

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