by: John Taylor Gatto

I just found out today that my mail server in VA was down.  Well, actually it wasn’t down exactly; it was trying to come back up.  My mail server’s spam filter didn’t start-up on reboot. So when there was a power failure a little while back, the machine just sat there rejecting any/all email.  It would have started up on its own but I had to disable windows server’s shutdown ‘reason’ tracking.  Anyway, I’ve done all that now, so the machine should be able to restart with email fully functional now…