Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> writes: > >> On 12/10/14 14:52, lee wrote: >>> Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: >>> >>>> Can any of you experienced exim4 hands interpret this output? >>> >>> Reading RFC-821 would tell you more. >> >> Reading RFC 2821 would be even better, since RFC 821 is obsoleted by >> RFC 2821. > > Thanks. > > I pounded thru that but I have to say I really didn't know any more > about interpreting smtp output when done. What really happened is > that I realized I'm probably a basic dimwit or severely under > educated.
These RFCs aren't exactly easy to read. You have to get the hang of it. I guess I kinda understand your frustration because I had a likewise experience a long time ago. I was reading lots of documentation, and it was very frustrating until I realised that I could not understand the documentation because I hadn't understood it yet. That means there's no way to understand it before you have picked up some knowledge, done some experimentation and developed some understanding. From there, you can read the documentation again and understand some more, experiment some more, and so on. And then, reading the exim documentation, things finally really started to make sense. Using the automagic configuration of exim doesn't help you to understand things in any way. It's much easier to use the example configuration and to understand it by consulting the exim specification. The example configuration gives you a guide telling you what you need to look at. It's also much less frustrating: You can actually see what's configured and you can actually try it out. You don't need to understand every little detail of it. There are lots of options and possibilities, and you don't need to know all of them. You'll understand how it basically works, and then you can look up the particular details of the implementation in the documentation of the particular MUA you're using. One of the advantages of exim is its outstanding documentation, so it's a good idea to use exim. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wq84u4xj....@yun.yagibdah.de
