Another information technology problem occurring in the world order. This time I started receiving, no pun intended, a problem with my email server not receiving new email messages. Postfix mail stuck in queue is basically the problemo in a nut shell.
Administering your very own email server, can at times become a pain in the ass. However, the benefits versus using someone elses email service are productive enough for me to justify. I noticed all of the sudden I was not receiving any email.
I had not installed any updates to my email server in weeks. I logged into my control panel and I noticed some emails in the “deferred” que. Without going into too much technical jargon, the deferred que is for email messages that for whatever reason, are not successfully delivered to their destination.
Depending on your control panel, you may see these menu options listed below. Obviously, you will want to browse to your email section of your control panel.
- Refresh
- Process Queue
- Remove Everything
- Maildrop
- Incoming
- Hold
- Active
- Deferred
You can click on “Process Queue” which will send or receive any email messages on your server. I actually clicked on this button and I started receiving email messages again. However, the same problem occurred the next time I checked my email with my client software.
You can view email messages that are marked as “Defferred” by going into the deferred queue. Also, you can remove individual email messages or click on “Remove Everything”. Caveat emptor, you probably want to view your messages first before choosing this option.
Unless, you are being attacked with a huge amount of spam messages. By viewing each individual message you can obtain Internet Protocol address, from sender email address, etc. This can allow you to make sure that you do not accidentally remove any important email messages.
Actually, you can view the sender email address or organization, just by viewing the different queues, incoming, active, hold, deferred, etc. You can delete individual messages and groups of messages with “Remove selected” or something similar option. My Postfix mail stuck in queue problem did not disappear just by clicking on “Process Queue”.
That is a temporary work around. I do not want to have to fucking manually process the email queue each and everytime I want to check for email. However, I don’t like to waste much time checking email to begin with.
You can check the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file. You can look for a properly formulated line(s) in this file. Here is an example entry you might see in your /etc/resolv.conf file on your email server:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain
xxx.xxx.xx.xxx myserver.governmentsucks.com 127.0.0.1 autoreply.myserver.governmentsucks.com
This last line in the example, should actually be all on one line. WordPress may have butchered it with their crappy Gutenberg editor. Anyways, make sure that there are spaces between the declarations.
For example this would be wrong:
xxx.xxx.xx.xxx myserver.governmentsucks.com127.0.0.1 autoreply.myserver.governmentsucks.com
There should be a space in between myserver.governmentsucks.com and 127.0.0.1. Those are separate declarations, that needs a space in between for the /etc/resolv.conf file to become processed correctly. Also, you can enter in the following command in a command line on your Linux email server.
ifconfig
You should see your email server network connection information, including the Internet Protocol address. Also, you should see the loopback device. Another place you can check for information that might help you troubleshoot your Postfix mail stuck in queue problem, is your email server log files.
Depending on what type of email server you have, you can look in the /var/log folder. You can view your “maillog” or something similar file. You want to look for any error messages or any details to help you fix your Postfix mail stuck in queue problem.
You can use these commands to view your maillog file on Linux.
tail -f maillog
vi maillog
Remember, there are alot of assholes and bitches on the Internet trying to send you spam, trying to circumvent your email server, trying to use it to send spam, etc. There maybe quite a few false positives, warnings, hacking attempts documented in this maillog file or similar log file. You want to look for any messages related to the Postfix mail queue not processing automatically.
These instructions were written for Postfix email server on Linux. However, you could possibly use these troubleshooting tips on other email servers with different Linux operating system distributions.
Postfix Mail Stuck in Queue – Troubleshooting Video Transcript
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sjs or wrong cone
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e day in computers.com motor video
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powder 2 oi
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quick video post
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fix mail stuck in cue troubleshooting so
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all of a sudden on my
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email server
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i was not receiving any email just out
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of the blue
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i had not installed any
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server updates recently and it’s not
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like something
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that may be perhaps a up date with a
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cause like overnight or immediately
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and so i logged into my control panel
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and i noticed that there were some email
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messages in
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the deferred queue so you can click on
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the link in the description box below of
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this youtube video that will take you to
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my website
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anacomputers.com i have full written
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instructions troubleshooting tips
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to try to help you solve the post fix
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male stuck in q problemo
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it’s just all of a sudden it occurred
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i checked the mail queue and i noticed
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some that were deferred
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so quickly i can’t make this video too
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long because i have bandwidth
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restrictions at this dumpster fire
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also known as a hotel oh speaking of
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dumpster fires
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that fucking gutenberg editor in
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wordpress
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is so atrocious to me i hate it so much
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and i am converting my website
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from wordpress to fucking static html
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because i’ve had it anyways
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all right so some quick trouble shooting
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tips
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we can go over my blog post now
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quickly now this deals with post
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fix mail server
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you’re gonna have to know command line
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you’re gonna have to know how to
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access your control panel you know what
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i’m saying
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depending on your control panel i don’t
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know what control panel you’re using
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quite fucking frankly i don’t care you
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know what i’m saying
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a control panel whatever you use to
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access your
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your virtual private server or your
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dedicated server or whatever
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you may see these options with post fix
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refresh
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process cue remove everything mail drop
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incoming hold active and defer
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i’m not gonna go into detail on every
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single option because i
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that would be a very long video what you
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can do to quickly troubleshoot is try to
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click on the process queue
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that is a manual way that tells your
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postfix email server to start fucking
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getting off its lazy ass
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quit being gutenberg quit being
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wordpress
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quit being atrocious quit being terrible
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like these americans
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or there may be some overtime i got
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cussed at again by two customers on this
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third party website where i earn
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supplemental income
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again within the last week i’ve been
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cussed at twice
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all right
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never ever enter information technology
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as a help desk
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or a desk site or don’t help people
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learn how to
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program learn how to code learn how to
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become
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self-employed and make a lot of money
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programming you know i’m saying right
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click on process q that was a temporary
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fix
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as soon as i clicked on the process q
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button
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which you can also this is on linux 2 so
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you should know that that i
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that my blog post has command line
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that is for linux you can process the
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queue manually
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on the command line but if you log into
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your control panel
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it should also give you the option you
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know i’m saying i immediately started
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receiving email when i clicked on
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process q
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however the problem did not fix itself
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after that because when i checked my
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email again today
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or or the next time i tried to check my
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email no bueno
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nothing i hate email
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i don’t like wasting time reading email
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i don’t like wasting time
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sending email i don’t like wasting time
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troubleshooting email
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you know i’m saying that but however
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that still is not to me a proper fix
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it’s a temporary fix it’s a workaround
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whatever
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language you want to use whatever
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colloquial
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you know linguistics you want to
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brainwash your
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sheeple speaking of brainwashing are the
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youtube technology shells
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ever going to help people or are they
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gonna get political oh my god new york
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city is failing because the
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governor is a democrat well no
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no the left and the right are the same
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politics is rigged they’re all
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criminal corrupt crooks but the youtube
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technology shills instead of helping
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people with their information technology
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problems
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they make videos turning it into
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politics all right
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what else can you check if you really
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need access to your email
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go ahead and try to get the server to
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process the email
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now what you can also do is you could
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refresh
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and and just observe your email server
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are there a lot of emails that are
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in the incoming queue are they in the
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hold queue
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are they in the active queue are they in
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the deferred queue
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you can also remove everything now
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caveat emptor
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you will probably want to read the
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emails first
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you can go into the incoming the whole
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the active and the deferred queues
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and you can re look at and view each
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individual email that’s on your email
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server
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and and look at it actually now command
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line you can read everything
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depending on the control panel it is a
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little bit limited but you can
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view potentially the internet protocol
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address
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the sender you know from
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and possibly also the email message the
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email
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address that the message is being
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processed
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you know i’m saying so caveat emptor
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go in the queues and look to see if
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there are
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emails that you need because once you
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remove them
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from the mail cue from either the
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control panel
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or when you administer post fix via the
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command line
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they’re gone basically gone forever you
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know what i’m saying
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but you may be receiving a lot of spam
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it could be a lot of spam that is
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causing a problem
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it could be the assholes and the bitches
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on the internet that are trying to
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circumvent your email server security or
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they’re trying to use your email
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server so that they can send spam
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there can be many different reasons why
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you’re having this problem
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okay let’s i have to keep an eye on the
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time
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okay seven minutes i have about eight
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minutes
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okay back to the
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blog post all right what else can we go
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into
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okay be careful removing messages be
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careful
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if if you are flooded with a bunch of
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spam then that is
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where you may want to you know now
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when you select on email messages
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that have not been processed yet or that
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they may be processed the the different
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cues
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the incoming hold active deferred you
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can view each message
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single at a time you can also remove
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them
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one at a time by clicking on remove
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selected so you select a message
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click on remove selected depending on
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your
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control panel here i’m sam
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now you can select more than one email
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message at a time like a group
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of them and then click on remove
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selected that will remove all them but
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i’m telling i’m warning you i did not
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give you
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i did not tell you to delete email i
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just told you
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that maybe if you’re getting bombarded
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with spam
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that may be what is causing the problem
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and you may want to remove the
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the messages in the queue all right
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you’re not going to sue me i every day
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well not every day
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every week every month i get yelled at i
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get threatened with lawsuits i get
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i have not received a death threat yet
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on this third party website
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but i want i want to expose this website
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badly because there’s a lot of
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crookedness at on this on this website i
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earn income
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it is disgusting how we technicians
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continue to get abused
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and nothing ever happens you know
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nobody’s held accountable
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now all they have to do is install a
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filter
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a word filter that would filter out
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that’s overtime
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let’s get back to this what else can you
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troubleshoot
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you can view my ad okay let’s see
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you can process a cue that is that could
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be temporary you could try that
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you you could also empty the deferred
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cue but again
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look at the message just to make sure
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that you’re not
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you know removing any messages that are
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legitimate okay because you’re actually
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looking at the email messages
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that are incoming and outgoing all right
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if if processing it
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manually by clicking on process q
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does not fix your problem and it’s only
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temporary then
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move on in my blog post you want to look
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at
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your etsy resolve dot configuration file
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let me give you a warning
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i did not add some of this because i did
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not want to make this blog post too
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technical
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i might have to go back and
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edit it abridge it amend it because i
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want to add some here’s a warning
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whenever you fuck with configuration
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files
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on linux or really any operating system
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you may want to get in the habit of
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making a backup
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on linux is really easy m v for move
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space
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the path the file and then
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give the new path and then give the name
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of the new file
0:10:54.959,0:10:58.000
and then you could add a dot back or a
0:10:57.440,0:11:01.360
dot
0:10:58.000,0:11:02.079
sav my point is you may want to get into
0:11:01.360,0:11:05.040
the habit of
0:11:02.079,0:11:06.800
always backing up any configuration
0:11:05.040,0:11:07.680
files that you fuck with in case you
0:11:06.800,0:11:10.000
fuck it up
0:11:07.680,0:11:11.519
it only takes one line and that email
0:11:10.000,0:11:13.440
server may not
0:11:11.519,0:11:15.440
work correctly the next time that it
0:11:13.440,0:11:17.519
needs to that postfix needs to
0:11:15.440,0:11:19.600
start up again it may not start up
0:11:17.519,0:11:22.240
because you fucked with the config file
0:11:19.600,0:11:23.920
and you fucked up one of the lines all
0:11:22.240,0:11:27.680
it takes is a misspelling
0:11:23.920,0:11:30.240
or i’m not making this up or the wrong
0:11:27.680,0:11:31.040
you know character a dot a comma instead
0:11:30.240,0:11:32.800
of a dot on
0:11:31.040,0:11:34.480
it that’s all it takes is one little
0:11:32.800,0:11:37.120
mistake all right
0:11:34.480,0:11:39.360
but you want to look at the slash etsy
0:11:37.120,0:11:41.519
slash resolve dot configuration file
0:11:39.360,0:11:42.800
i gave you an example of what it should
0:11:41.519,0:11:45.120
what it could look like
0:11:42.800,0:11:47.920
and what it really should look like it
0:11:45.120,0:11:50.480
may not look the same on your server
0:11:47.920,0:11:51.200
now you want to make sure that each
0:11:50.480,0:11:53.920
entry
0:11:51.200,0:11:55.600
has spaces where they are appropriate if
0:11:53.920,0:12:01.839
you notice this example
0:11:55.600,0:12:01.839
it’s the loopback it’s 127.0.0.1 space
0:12:02.040,0:12:06.639
localhost.localhost.localdomain
0:12:04.320,0:12:07.760
if there was a missing space between the
0:12:06.639,0:12:09.920
127
0:12:07.760,0:12:10.880
and the localhost and there was no space
0:12:09.920,0:12:13.760
there
0:12:10.880,0:12:14.480
that would fuck up the because it’s a
0:12:13.760,0:12:18.800
it’s not
0:12:14.480,0:12:22.160
acceptable that would be one line
0:12:18.800,0:12:25.519
that those are two separate entries okay
0:12:22.160,0:12:26.399
the next one colon colon one space
0:12:25.519,0:12:28.880
localhost
0:12:26.399,0:12:30.320
space localhost.localdomain those are
0:12:28.880,0:12:32.959
acceptable
0:12:30.320,0:12:34.079
those are acceptable variables and then
0:12:32.959,0:12:37.040
this one that i
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you know government sucks.com yes it
0:12:37.040,0:12:41.920
does
0:12:38.320,0:12:44.240
and i gave you an example and i and
0:12:41.920,0:12:45.360
your ip address i’m not no i’m not going
0:12:44.240,0:12:47.279
to give you my fucking
0:12:45.360,0:12:50.079
emails or ip address fuck you if you
0:12:47.279,0:12:54.160
think i’m going to you know
0:12:50.079,0:12:55.680
no space myserver.governmentsucks.com or
0:12:54.160,0:12:59.040
whatever your domain is
0:12:55.680,0:13:00.880
it could be government or worship
0:12:59.040,0:13:02.639
government.com as you americans you
0:13:00.880,0:13:03.200
don’t you that’s all you do is worship
0:13:02.639,0:13:04.399
government
0:13:03.200,0:13:06.560
and then you’re like the youtube
0:13:04.399,0:13:07.040
technology shills that politicize
0:13:06.560,0:13:08.639
everything
0:13:07.040,0:13:10.720
you’re not helping people with their
0:13:08.639,0:13:11.519
tech problems you’re talking about
0:13:10.720,0:13:14.000
politics
0:13:11.519,0:13:15.200
and you’re blaming one bureaucrat versus
0:13:14.000,0:13:18.720
a different one
0:13:15.200,0:13:20.880
one has a giraffe logo
0:13:18.720,0:13:22.959
the other one has a tiger logo and you
0:13:20.880,0:13:23.519
know politics is so stupid it’s all
0:13:22.959,0:13:25.040
rigged
0:13:23.519,0:13:28.320
they’re the same the left and the right
0:13:25.040,0:13:28.320
are the same all right
0:13:29.519,0:13:33.600
and then space and then the local ip
0:13:32.480,0:13:37.200
address which is
0:13:33.600,0:13:40.639
the local loopback address 127.0.0.1
0:13:37.200,0:13:42.160
now wordpress they fucked up this should
0:13:40.639,0:13:44.399
all be on one line
0:13:42.160,0:13:45.680
they fucked it up and formatted it as
0:13:44.399,0:13:49.839
two lines no
0:13:45.680,0:13:50.880
in the actual etsyresolve.com file c1f
0:13:49.839,0:13:53.600
for configuration
0:13:50.880,0:13:56.160
that’s actually on one line and there is
0:13:53.600,0:13:59.040
a space after the 127 address
0:13:56.160,0:13:59.600
and then you have auto reply dot my
0:13:59.040,0:14:02.160
server
0:13:59.600,0:14:04.639
dot government sucks.com or whatever
0:14:02.160,0:14:06.880
your domain is or however your
0:14:04.639,0:14:08.000
etsy resolve dot configuration file my
0:14:06.880,0:14:12.480
point is
0:14:08.000,0:14:13.839
look for obvious errors
0:14:12.480,0:14:15.519
you know what i’m saying that could be
0:14:13.839,0:14:18.760
causing your problem
0:14:15.519,0:14:20.399
the mail server is looking in the etsy
0:14:18.760,0:14:22.320
resolve.configuration file
0:14:20.399,0:14:24.240
for an address well where do i send this
0:14:22.320,0:14:26.160
email where do you want me to send it
0:14:24.240,0:14:28.000
you got to tell me i’m not i’m
0:14:26.160,0:14:29.600
you know come on i don’t know what i’m
0:14:28.000,0:14:32.639
doing i’m dumb
0:14:29.600,0:14:35.120
no well you know what i’m saying
0:14:32.639,0:14:36.000
are you you know are you sending it to a
0:14:35.120,0:14:38.399
local
0:14:36.000,0:14:40.800
address so that your local mail server
0:14:38.399,0:14:41.680
processes whether it’s ascend or receive
0:14:40.800,0:14:45.120
or are you
0:14:41.680,0:14:48.560
are you in using external email server
0:14:45.120,0:14:50.320
to process your mail so the another file
0:14:48.560,0:14:53.680
that you can check
0:14:50.320,0:14:56.000
is actually well another command
0:14:53.680,0:14:57.600
it’s not technically a file but well
0:14:56.000,0:14:58.160
actually there is a file but i’m not
0:14:57.600,0:15:00.560
going to
0:14:58.160,0:15:02.880
go there because it getting technical
0:15:00.560,0:15:06.320
and i’m under time constraints
0:15:02.880,0:15:08.639
type in if config this is on linux
0:15:06.320,0:15:09.600
now when you enter in if config and i
0:15:08.639,0:15:12.920
gave you an example
0:15:09.600,0:15:14.880
of a wrong entry in your
0:15:12.920,0:15:19.120
etsyresolve.conf file
0:15:14.880,0:15:19.120
it’s it’s missing a space okay
0:15:19.279,0:15:25.120
the i f config it tells you about your
0:15:23.199,0:15:27.519
local network connection
0:15:25.120,0:15:28.639
or your your network connections on the
0:15:27.519,0:15:31.279
server
0:15:28.639,0:15:32.000
it should show you the loopback address
0:15:31.279,0:15:35.120
and it
0:15:32.000,0:15:38.959
should also tell you about your
0:15:35.120,0:15:41.600
wan or lan address
0:15:38.959,0:15:43.040
and it will include your server address
0:15:41.600,0:15:44.480
and i’m not going to ever tell you that
0:15:43.040,0:15:48.000
well duh
0:15:44.480,0:15:48.639
so just run the if config and look to
0:15:48.000,0:15:50.720
see
0:15:48.639,0:15:52.480
it should kind of match with what is in
0:15:50.720,0:15:53.680
your etsy resolve dot configuration
0:15:52.480,0:15:56.320
it shouldn’t it’s not going to be the
0:15:53.680,0:16:00.079
exact same but look for an example
0:15:56.320,0:16:03.839
if the server ip in the etsy config
0:16:00.079,0:16:05.279
file is different than the ip address
0:16:03.839,0:16:08.959
when you run
0:16:05.279,0:16:10.639
ifconfig that could be
0:16:08.959,0:16:12.800
the problem right there it could be a
0:16:10.639,0:16:14.800
configuration problem that could be
0:16:12.800,0:16:18.000
you know what i’m saying a clue all
0:16:14.800,0:16:21.680
right what is next
0:16:18.000,0:16:25.199
another place that you can look is the
0:16:21.680,0:16:29.360
log files now
0:16:25.199,0:16:30.639
i wrote this blog post for linux
0:16:29.360,0:16:32.639
however there are different
0:16:30.639,0:16:35.199
distributions the log
0:16:32.639,0:16:36.079
file for postfix may not be in this
0:16:35.199,0:16:38.480
exact
0:16:36.079,0:16:39.759
location but you can look look under the
0:16:38.480,0:16:43.199
slash var
0:16:39.759,0:16:46.959
slash log directory look for the mail
0:16:43.199,0:16:50.399
log and it’s spelled with two l’s
0:16:46.959,0:16:51.680
male log no spaces now i gave you two
0:16:50.399,0:16:55.360
quick commands to
0:16:51.680,0:16:58.240
view the log file tail minus f mail log
0:16:55.360,0:16:59.040
that will show you the last i think 10
0:16:58.240,0:17:01.040
lines
0:16:59.040,0:17:04.720
in that log file that could be a quick
0:17:01.040,0:17:07.199
one you know what i’m saying to view the
0:17:04.720,0:17:09.919
entire log file you would type in vi
0:17:07.199,0:17:11.919
space mail log now vi is an editor you
0:17:09.919,0:17:14.160
can use emacs or you could use another
0:17:11.919,0:17:15.919
editor
0:17:14.160,0:17:19.839
my point is that you want to use an
0:17:15.919,0:17:22.720
editor and these are command lines okay
0:17:19.839,0:17:24.959
vi and then mail log or emacs and then
0:17:22.720,0:17:26.079
mail log or however whatever editor you
0:17:24.959,0:17:28.960
use or however
0:17:26.079,0:17:30.799
you use your editor command line now
0:17:28.960,0:17:33.600
when it comes to log files
0:17:30.799,0:17:34.640
through a control panel you can view
0:17:33.600,0:17:36.880
them but
0:17:34.640,0:17:37.919
it’s like a pain in the ass but but that
0:17:36.880,0:17:40.640
is another option
0:17:37.919,0:17:42.000
your control panel whether it’s cpanel
0:17:40.640,0:17:44.240
or any other one
0:17:42.000,0:17:45.760
may have may have the ability to view
0:17:44.240,0:17:47.360
them the log file
0:17:45.760,0:17:49.840
within the control panel that’s another
0:17:47.360,0:17:52.160
way that might be easier if you’re not
0:17:49.840,0:17:54.160
familiar with command line but i highly
0:17:52.160,0:17:57.280
encourage you to learn command line
0:17:54.160,0:17:57.600
all right so look in the so my point is
0:17:57.280,0:18:01.120
that
0:17:57.600,0:18:05.200
look for the log file for
0:18:01.120,0:18:07.520
postfix which might be a
0:18:05.200,0:18:09.200
good chance that it’s slash var slash
0:18:07.520,0:18:11.600
log okay
0:18:09.200,0:18:12.240
and now let me give you some warnings
0:18:11.600,0:18:14.480
about the
0:18:12.240,0:18:15.919
mail log there’s there could be a lot of
0:18:14.480,0:18:18.799
false positives or
0:18:15.919,0:18:19.600
there’s a lot of logs that are dealing
0:18:18.799,0:18:21.760
with security
0:18:19.600,0:18:22.799
there’s a lot of assholes and bitches on
0:18:21.760,0:18:24.960
the internet
0:18:22.799,0:18:27.360
that are trying to circumvent your mail
0:18:24.960,0:18:29.679
server they’re trying to use it so that
0:18:27.360,0:18:32.799
they can use your server to
0:18:29.679,0:18:34.880
send spam or they’re trying to hack in
0:18:32.799,0:18:37.039
excuse me excuse me political
0:18:34.880,0:18:39.679
correctness you’re dealing with youtube
0:18:37.039,0:18:41.520
youtuber censors susan wojcicki should
0:18:39.679,0:18:44.799
have been fired a long time ago
0:18:41.520,0:18:47.679
google and did you know that the cia
0:18:44.799,0:18:50.480
funded google via the national science
0:18:47.679,0:18:53.600
foundation anyways
0:18:50.480,0:18:55.840
if you talk about certain topics on
0:18:53.600,0:18:56.880
youtube you may get your channel
0:18:55.840,0:19:00.240
terminated
0:18:56.880,0:19:02.880
i did not use the h word
0:19:00.240,0:19:04.000
that was a prop that i i’m gonna blame
0:19:02.880,0:19:06.320
it on
0:19:04.000,0:19:07.919
that was a youtube problem or yeah i
0:19:06.320,0:19:11.280
don’t know what that was that was a
0:19:07.919,0:19:14.799
the internet just fucked up i
0:19:11.280,0:19:17.280
did not talk about you know helping you
0:19:14.799,0:19:19.840
circumvent security i’m trying to warn
0:19:17.280,0:19:19.840
you about
0:19:20.080,0:19:24.880
computer security okay but there are
0:19:23.280,0:19:25.600
assholes and bitches that may try to
0:19:24.880,0:19:27.919
circumvent
0:19:25.600,0:19:28.880
your server so there’s going to be a lot
0:19:27.919,0:19:31.039
of those logs
0:19:28.880,0:19:32.080
those could be kind of consider the
0:19:31.039,0:19:34.000
false positives
0:19:32.080,0:19:35.360
with regards to you’re trying to
0:19:34.000,0:19:38.080
troubleshoot why the
0:19:35.360,0:19:39.679
your post fix email server is not
0:19:38.080,0:19:41.840
processing the email
0:19:39.679,0:19:43.200
messages automatically like it’s done
0:19:41.840,0:19:44.880
for the last decade
0:19:43.200,0:19:47.520
and then all of a sudden you wake up one
0:19:44.880,0:19:50.480
day and you you check your email
0:19:47.520,0:19:52.320
and then there’s nothing and your tps
0:19:50.480,0:19:54.480
report is due on time
0:19:52.320,0:19:55.440
that asshole and that bitch at that
0:19:54.480,0:19:57.520
corporation that
0:19:55.440,0:19:59.120
that you’re working for that is very
0:19:57.520,0:20:01.039
criminal and corrupt and crooked
0:19:59.120,0:20:02.640
and they allow the employees or the
0:20:01.039,0:20:05.039
contractors or the
0:20:02.640,0:20:07.120
self-employed like myself to get abused
0:20:05.039,0:20:10.799
verbally
0:20:07.120,0:20:10.799
well no email
0:20:10.880,0:20:15.919
so you want to look in the log file for
0:20:14.000,0:20:17.520
logs that detail
0:20:15.919,0:20:19.120
that might have some clues they might
0:20:17.520,0:20:20.000
have some tips there might be some error
0:20:19.120,0:20:22.640
messages
0:20:20.000,0:20:26.080
on the reason why your post fix email
0:20:22.640,0:20:29.360
server is not processing the mail
0:20:26.080,0:20:32.480
you have to manually process it
0:20:29.360,0:20:35.200
okay anything else i think i am
0:20:32.480,0:20:36.000
oh i’m i’m beyond i’m on five minutes
0:20:35.200,0:20:38.320
overtime
0:20:36.000,0:20:39.919
i cannot talk i i have terrible
0:20:38.320,0:20:40.799
bandwidth at this dumpster fire of a
0:20:39.919,0:20:42.400
hotel i have to
0:20:40.799,0:20:44.000
go to another one or i have to provide
0:20:42.400,0:20:45.679
my own internet now
0:20:44.000,0:20:48.000
because they fucked us over we had
0:20:45.679,0:20:49.280
really fast internet at this hotel
0:20:48.000,0:20:51.600
and then all of a sudden they took it
0:20:49.280,0:20:52.400
away and now we got fucking like dial up
0:20:51.600,0:20:54.480
internet
0:20:52.400,0:20:56.400
but it’s close to dial up it’s a it’s a
0:20:54.480,0:20:59.760
just a total atrocious joke
0:20:56.400,0:21:01.760
all right in overtime quickly within the
0:20:59.760,0:21:02.480
last two weeks i’ve been cussed at twice
0:21:01.760,0:21:04.320
on the story
0:21:02.480,0:21:06.240
website where i earned supplemental
0:21:04.320,0:21:12.080
income
0:21:06.240,0:21:12.080
going mentally ill one person told me
0:21:12.880,0:21:18.080
he said
0:21:16.240,0:21:19.840
what was he used the f word whenever
0:21:18.080,0:21:21.760
they start cussing i warned them
0:21:19.840,0:21:23.200
i said i asked them nicely please
0:21:21.760,0:21:25.360
refrain from adult language
0:21:23.200,0:21:26.480
these goddamn americans which are most
0:21:25.360,0:21:30.559
of my customers
0:21:26.480,0:21:32.400
are emotional americans
0:21:30.559,0:21:35.600
are fueled by emotions because they
0:21:32.400,0:21:35.600
refuse to use logic
0:21:36.559,0:21:39.600
when people start cussing generally they
0:21:38.640,0:21:41.360
get emotional
0:21:39.600,0:21:42.960
and then no i don’t i don’t put up with
0:21:41.360,0:21:46.400
that you’re not gonna abuse me
0:21:42.960,0:21:48.640
you do but you’re i’m not gonna allow it
0:21:46.400,0:21:50.000
i asked one individual please refrain
0:21:48.640,0:21:52.640
from using adult language they were
0:21:50.000,0:21:54.400
you know fuck you fuck this fuck that
0:21:52.640,0:21:56.799
and then they responded today
0:21:54.400,0:21:58.159
saying fuck you i asked them nicely
0:21:56.799,0:21:59.919
please do not use
0:21:58.159,0:22:01.360
abusive adult language what do they
0:21:59.919,0:22:04.799
respond with fuck you
0:22:01.360,0:22:06.799
i fired them means i don’t have to
0:22:04.799,0:22:08.400
deal with him ever again however on this
0:22:06.799,0:22:09.360
website i’ve been stalked i’ve had
0:22:08.400,0:22:11.120
people that i
0:22:09.360,0:22:12.799
fired because i did not want to deal
0:22:11.120,0:22:14.960
with her abusive bullshit
0:22:12.799,0:22:16.240
and they tried to open up a ticket and
0:22:14.960,0:22:18.559
then assign it to me
0:22:16.240,0:22:19.679
well i quickly closed that ticket
0:22:18.559,0:22:22.559
another
0:22:19.679,0:22:25.200
client within the last week said that i
0:22:22.559,0:22:27.840
my service was fucking
0:22:25.200,0:22:29.360
horrible or useless he said you’re
0:22:27.840,0:22:32.000
fucking useless
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now on this website what i do is when i
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make my videos
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i write detailed instructions telling
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these motherfuckers
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how to fix our problem i i give them
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links i give them a contact form i tell
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them how to chat with an online agent i
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give them telephone numbers
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i also give them detailed instructions
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on how to solve the problem
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i also give proof and yet these
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motherfuckers
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constantly respond and then they harass
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us
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and then a lot of times all i do is i i
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and i have templates and i send the
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original message with all the
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instructions well
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written well-documented links and all
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the information that they would ever
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need
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and yet after one message they get
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belligerent
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and they’re like well your your
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information is fucking worthless
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i fired that motherfucker too adios