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The Storm before the Quiet?!?!

12/14/05 @ 4:24 pm · By Steve Hoffman · Comments (0) · Leave one
I know that saying is supposed to be the other way around, but it's not...oh well.  I've been solving problems left and right here and am finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  The biggest headache I've had so far today is the ongoing battle with AOL.  I only recently found out why they were once again bouncing our email...they claimed that it was due to a malicious script...I claim that is bologna...so I now have an email of an honest to goodness SysAdmin at AOL and he says they are rejecting the message because the return path is nobody@our.domain.com (protected the domain to protect the server).  Give me a freakin break!?!?  It probably shouldn't have been done that way anyway, but that doesn't make it an invalid email.  AOL is just making the rules up as they go.  So with the help of some REGEX and a few exim rules if the "Return-Path:" header is nobody@our.domain.com then I rewrite it to match the "From:" header.  So basically whoever "sent" the email will get it back if it bounces...  The funny thing about it is, as I was watching the mail logs go by, I happened to see that our mail to hotmail.com addresses are bouncing back because hotmail's servers are returning an "out of memory" error 452...too funny!

We're just about geared up to hit the road tomorrow night, of course there's a major snowstorm on it's way...one that will blanket the whole east coast with at least some wintry precipitation.  I normally wouldn't care, we just got new tires on the Durango and I love driving in the snow because it forces most morons off the road (literally in some cases), but my brother is going to follow us up to PA in his car and really has NO experience with driving in the snow.  I'll probably take Joni's suggestion and if the roads get bad I'll drive his car so we can at least get to Baltimore or PA before looking for a hotel room.  Pray for a safe trip for us. 

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