Non testing of old features

Switching SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) servers [1] will always cause problems. When we first switched to Postfix [2], I had problems with the email interface for mod_blog [3]. It turned out that postfix set the default permissions of child processes to be restrictive and the patch was to relax the default permissions.

Of course, I forgot about that with the software I wrote [4] for Spring [5].

But it didn't really matter since she rarely, if ever, used the email interface.

Until today.

It took me quite a while to track down the problem and add a one line fix.

[1] /boston/2003/03/04.3

[2] http://www.postfix.org/

[3] https://boston.conman.org/about/

[4] http://www.springdew.com/connected/c25.htm

[5] http://www.springdew.com/

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