Dog Food
At some point last week I was working on the message-delivery bits of
Hep. I had finished the part of the SMTP server that accepts incoming
messages, but not part that actually delivers messages to their
destinations. (Since Hep is a multi-protocol message server, those
destinations can include web logs and instant messaging addresses. But
I digress.) For testing, I changed my e-mail client to send all
messages through Hep. When I was done, I shut down the computer and
went to bed.
During the next few days, I wondered why I wasn’t getting any replies to
my e-mails, but didn’t dwell on it.
And of course yesterday, when I went back to working on Hep, there were
all my messages, sitting in my Hep outbox, undelivered. I had forgot to
change my e-mail client’s configuration back, so it was sending all my
mail via Hep, which happily saved them to disk and left them there.
So I apologize to anyone who wrote to me last week and didn’t get a
reply until this morning. I wasn’t trying to be rude, I was using my
own software :-).
