I’ve finally finished setting up Exim and Courier to access MySQL for ALL of it’s data. In case you’re interested in doing the same thing, here are the relevant config files.
August 22nd, 2003:
Courier is stupid
It can login. It can create messages. It can create folders. It does all of this as the user that owns the account. That’s perfect. But, if the INBOX doesn’t exist (even though all the folders leading up to it do) it can’t. That’s silly. So now, when I create a new user account, instead of just creating /var/sites/domain.com/mail/username/ I have to create it plus /var/sites/domain.com/mail/username/new/ and /var/sites/domain.com/mail/username/cur/.
Whatever.
Also, they claim that, good IMAP clients will support the NAMESPACE features and automatically recognize where mail goes and where new folders should be created. Well… that’s just peachy. But, why not just do it automatically and then even bad IMAP clients will work. How hard would it be to add a feature that says “if a folder is being referenced, for creation or access, or message copy, that doesn’t start with “INBOX.”, add it for them. Additionally, if a ‘/’ is specified in the folder name, convert it to a ‘.’”? Then, all of the problems would be solved and ALL IMAP clients would work pretty well.
To make matters worse, Outlook Express seems not to recognize Courier’s NAMESPACE features, so you have to make that setting by hand. And, Evolution, regardless of whether that setting is made or not, insists on showing mail folders under INBOX. Ugh.
creationists, evolutionists: lend me your ears
There is no point in debating the creationist and evolutionist points of view on “creation” until evolutionists recognize ONE thing:
Let’s say, for a moment, that the evolutionists ARE right. Let’s say that, 18 bazillion years ago, the entire universe was a speck of dust that exploded in a massive ball of fire and fury, that expanded to create the universe as we know it today. And in that expansion, the Earth was created, and one fine summer day in the land of inorganic material an organic single-celled creature emerged which resulted in the eventual evolution of every living creature known today. Assuming ALL of this is correct: how did the speck get there? Someone, something, some process created that speck. Something can not be created out of nothing. Or, if it can, give us an explanation. And, until you have one, you need to at least acknowledge whatever created that speck as a “higer power”. And, regardless of what Science you use to prove otherwise, there will never be a method of showing how nothing created something. Even if you can determine how that speck of dust got there in the first place, the creation of whatever created that speck of dust will be indeterminate.
If the creationists want to say that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8) and that the “six days [in which] the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is” (Exodus 20:11) was, scientifically, longer than six days, that’s fine… you can debate that with them all you want. However, don’t try to say that the creation of the universe occured without a “higher power”. You have no way of proving that, and you never will. It just isn’t possible. Eventually, you will be led to something that just… was or is… with no explanation.
And creationists: please stop trying to convince the evolutionists that a “higher power” exists. If they deny that concept, then they are fooling themselves and debate with them is futile, at best.