If local Dovecot stops working, check lo

[Nick Edwards]

On 7/14/14, Jiri Bourek <bourek at thinline.cz> wrote:
> On 14.7.2014 00:24, Nick Edwards wrote:
>> On 7/12/14, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>>
>>> experience with Debian Wheezy is that lo "goes down" a lot, so this is
>>> one of the first things I do when odd stuff happens.
>>>
>>
>> Use a better operating system then
>
> Blaming operating system after *one* person reports something strange
> about it seems a bit overboard, doesn't it...?
>
debian has a long history of being clueless:
old packages in new releases, untested packages in releases
(mailscanner did not, and was never going to, work out of thebox in a
recent release)

debian has history of thinking it knows better than upstream:
openssl screwup they told debian was wrong but debian released it
anyway causing grief for not only debian systems but all systems
including windows that used certs generated on a debi\an server.

and dont get me started on debians release/ftp manager and the
personal biases there either, shall I go? I can but it would be a bore
for most.