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> > I think this would make it easier to figure out what's going
> > on with upas configuration, and get a working system.
> > 
> > Thoughts? Complaints? "Don't touch the artwork!"?
>
> please keep in mind all our shit (read: this mailing list, and my
> personal mail) runs on upas before committing breaking changes.

Yep, definitely. That's why I'm trying to validate my assumptions
on what's actually considered configuration, and what's dumped
in there.

Note, /mail/lib isn't in hg, so sysupdate doesn't touch it.
The changes I'm proposing would be in the defaults for new
installs.

Any breakage would be from changes in /sys/src/cmd/upas, and
I don't see any problem with keeping things compatible. At
most it'd mean checking an extra path to decide what command
to run.

> strongly in favor of simplifying setup.  whatever we're currently
> shipping is the remnants of what actually ran at the labs.  all that
> configuration (anti-spam, etc.) was theirs.  i got all my own stuff
> working by reading the man pages and trial and error.

Yeah. I'm doing that now as well for testing the smtpd changes
for date and time. I'm realizing that this stuff is simpler than
it looks, but the example config really overcomplicates things.

> i thought incoming messages were piped through qmail somewhere along
> the line.

Ah, I missed it in the rewrite file. Thanks for the cross check.