just another post…
what a beautiful day Lord!!! sunny, perfect temps, blue sky, nice breeze - thank YOU!!
life sure feels like a mess of different worlds right now. i feel like i’m about 4 different people at all times, with an undercurrent of the stuff with nancy going on in the background of all of it. god it is nice to be able to have some tiem to read, to think, and to write. what am i feeling? how am i doing? the eternal questions for me… and ones that i usually don’t know the answers to right off the top. torn for sure, lazy yes, tired yes, unprioritized, yes.
it’s weird being in the people “business”. obviously not a business at all, but it’s a hard thing to live in a world where you have so many spheres of relationship. there’s my staff guys and neil, who i’m friends with, i’m their boss/manager. there’s my ft people who i’m responsible for on a more touch basis than the rest of the church, they’re friends to varying depths and also part of my charge, then there are my friends in our church who are my charge and i have some sort of weird responsibility for, yet moreso are simply my friends. I have relationships with supporters, who i have responsibilities to yet who are friends to varying depths as well, but i still have these weird responsibilities to. i have family, and right now those are very important and up front peices of our life with all that’s going on with Jayne’s mom. so when you’re in the business of being a counselor and a listener and a pastor and a friend and a son in law and a husband and a boss to all kinds of different people with different expectations it all seems kind of dizzying to me, at least right now. anyways, maybe i’m just too out there to be thinking really clearly about all this.
God thanks for the day. Simply Beautiful.
am i really following jesus???
if we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perphaps we should ask ourselves if we are really following jesus or not.
–bill, the guy who runs the b&b in SF for people in ministry
here up in MI land…
well, we’ll be leaving today after having easter up here with tom and nancy. too much basketball and tv on for sure this weekend. i had some short, but good chats with tom, but haven’t got much time to talk with nancy. it’s good to read that book blue like jazz, it’s really a great call out. i feel pretty convicted about a lot of what he’s sharing. really connects to me. good to consider all that in light of thinking about the church, who we are, what we are, what we’re all about… to be continued, there’s a 2 year old in charge of things.
can’t explain it…
I don’t think you can explain how the Christian faith works either. It is a mystery. And I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul.
Donald Miller, BLUE LIKE JAZZ
Possible Books to check out
Sexual Character by Marva Dawn
A Royal “Waste” of Time by Marva Dawn
The Hauerwas Reader by Hauerwas
The Truth About God: The Ten Commandments in Christian Life by Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas Quote
Here’s a quote from Stanley Hauerwas that i found interesting in light of all the stuff we’re going through with Jayne’s mom…
“What I think Christianity is about, is always learning how to die early for the right reasons.”
“But I really believe, since I’m a Christian, that you always live in a world at risk. Indeed, what Christianity is about, is always learning how to die early for the right reasons. And Americans just – that’s a thought that is unthinkable right now. I think the American response to September 11th is exactly the other side of the Americans’ unbelievable support for crisis care medicine. They think that if we just get good enough at curing cancer, or good enough at doing something about people suffering heart attacks, or good enough with genetics today, then they’re going to get out of this life alive. It’s just not going to happen.”
the graduates list…
the graduates…
rohlfings
chandlers
replogles
krings
carl
zolman
osners
weathertons
carolyn
bob t
hunts
buehlers
garrisons
james
dave d
joanne
bounds
smiths
reese
lees
pittmans
stacey smith
mays
bob m
moody
bergman
gassman
thrasher
postfix stuff the biggie…
POSTFIX
This document is based on stepwise.com article by Graham Orndorff
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/eart.index.html - Copyright 2001 Graham Orndorff
Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther) is shipped with a built-in mail server that comes deactivated by default. This mail server, named “Postfix” is a high-performance UNIX SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server. Postfix can be setup in less than 5 minutes and can make your MaxBulk e-mails deliveries up as twice as fast. Furthermore you will no longer need to use your ISP server, no more authentication, no more mails per session limit… Postfix, as a full SMTP server, will deliver all your e-mails directly to the recipients mailboxes.
The good news: once your Mail server’s running, you will be able to set any mail application to use it. This will boost all your day to day mail deliveries.
Note: At the time of writing, Mac OS 10.3 ships with 2.0.10 release of Postfix. This document assumes the reader is reasonably competent with unix, and has administrative rights on the system in question.
Table of Contents
1-. What is Postfix, and why should I use it?
2.- Enabling Postfix
3.- Troubleshooting
4.- Restarting Postfix
5.- How to set MaxBulk Mailer to use Postfix?
6.- Legal Disclaimer
1-. What is Postfix, and why should I use it?
Postfix is the built-in mail server on Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther). It is bundled with many Unix operating systems as well. By default, it is disabled for security purposes, but it can be enabled easily by making a small modifications. Enabling Postfix allows you to specify “localhost” as your outgoing mailserver. By enabling Postfix, you’ll never have to change your mailserver settings again. Postfix is also quite fast.
To perform all the requested changes you will need to use the Terminal utility.
Terminal is located in the Applications/Utilities folder
2.- Enabling Postfix
To enable Postfix, open the Terminal and type
sudo pico /etc/hostconfig
Typing “sudo pico /etc/hostconfig”
Find the line that has “MAILSERVER=-NO-” or “MAILSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-” and change the “-NO-” or “-AUTOMATIC-” to “-YES-”. Note: Control+V to go to next page and use the arrow keys to go up, down, right and left.
Changing “MAILSERVER=-NO-” to “MAILSERVER=-YES-”
Hit Control+’X', press ‘Y’ and return to save the changes to the file.
Next step is to create a ‘postfix’ group and a ‘postdrop’ account using following commands:
(Write one command at a time followed by a carriage return)
echo ‘postfix:*:23456:postfix’ | sudo niload group /
echo ‘postdrop :*:23457:’ | sudo niload group /
echo ‘postfix:*:23456:23456::0:0:Mail:/tmp:/usr/bin/false’ | sudo niload passwd /
Then we set Postfix directories owner with following commands:
(Write one command at a time followed by a carriage return)
sudo chown -R postfix /private/var/spool/postfix
sudo chown :postdrop /private/var/spool/postfix/public
sudo chown :postdrop /private/var/spool/postfix/maildrop
sudo chown :postdrop /usr/sbin/postqueue
sudo chown :postdrop /usr/sbin/postdrop
Next, you must adjust the Postfix configuration opening ‘master.cf’:
sudo pico /etc/postfix/master.cf
Typing “sudo pico /etc/postfix/master.cf”
Once on the file, go to next page (control+V) and uncoment the first smtp line:
#smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
this way:
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
Note: Control+V to go to next page and use the arrow keys to go up, down, right and left.
Un-commenting line
Hit Control+’X', press ‘Y’ and return to save the changes to the file.
Next, you must adjust your domain and host name opening ‘main.cf’:
sudo pico /etc/postfix/main.cf
• Find the lines:
#myhostname = host.domain.tld
#myhostname = virtual.domain.tld
and add bellow:
myhostname = your.domain.tld (e.g. stan.maxprog.com)
• Find the line:
#myorigin = $mydomain
Uncomment it so it looks like this:
myorigin = $mydomain
Hit Control+’X', press ‘Y’ and return to save the changes to the file.
• You can now launch Postfix with:
sudo postfix start
• Restart PostFix with this command:
sudo postfix reload
• To force deliveries to start:
sudo postfix flush
When you restart, Postfix will be active. To use that mailserver, just set your email client’s outgoing mailserver to “localhost” or “127.0.0.1″.
You can verity the server is running by using telnet to connect to port 25 (SMTP): for example..
telnet localhost 25
Checking if Postfix is running with “telnet localhost 25″ command
If your connection fails, you need to verify that you have a DNS hostname for your computer and check for error messages in the /var/log/mail.log file. The Postfix messages are quite verbose and a great deal of help with debuggin a faulty installation.
Try sending yourself a test message from a remote computer, Be sure to specify the destination as the hostname and username used on your Mac OS X machine.
3.- Troubleshooting
Postfix can cause the startup process to hang. By making a minor modification to the startup script, you can eliminate this hang. To do so, open the Terminal and type “sudo pico /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/postfix”. Add an ampersand (&) after the line with the Postfix command.
4.- Restarting Postfix
You can restart Postfix writing the following (in the Terminal):
sudo postfix reload
5.- How to set MaxBulk Mailer to use Postfix?
It is as easy as setting the SMTP host to “localhost” or “127.0.0.1″ (Set ‘Account ID’ to whatever you like)
In order to use Postfix just set the SMTP host to “localhost” or “127.0.0.1″
At this point, you are ready to send e-mails as fast as hell bypassing your local ISP SMTP server and delivering all your e-mails directly to each recipient mailbox.
