RE: To supervise or to not supervise?

["David T. Ashley" <dashley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been running qmail for years without supervise and I've never seen
> qmail crash or "stop by itself."

Same here.  I have probably done this for about 36 qmail-months.  Never seen
it go down.

> I tend to feel like it "over complicates" things and also feel like if a
> program is going to "crash" or whatever qmail might do, sometimes its just
> best to let it.

This is one of the oldest arguments known to engineers.  Do you build one
thing only, and pay careful attention to quality control?  Or do you try for
some form of redundancy?  Qmail is already well constructed.

> At the same time, in the past I haven't had mail this
> important.

Me either.  My understanding is the Ed McMahon and Publisher's Clearing
House still do the notifications in person.

Best regards, Dave Ashley.