>> I've searched the archives and i couldn't locate
>> anything dealing with this.
>
>FAQ 4.6, also man dot-qmail:
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> WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext
> with colons before checking .qmail-ext. For convenience,
> qmail-local converts any uppercase letters in ext to lower-
> case.
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You're entirely right; sorry! I completely forgot to
check the FAQ, having searched the list archives etc.
><rant>
>I've heard many people complain about the lack of documentation that comes
>with qmail; I'd like to put in a contrary opinion. I've never seen so
>completely documented a system. Everything is there. The only gotcha is
>that, apart from the FAQ, nothing is repeated. The moral of the story is:
>read through *all* the qmail docs quickly once, or at least read the FAQ.
></rant>
>
You are right again. After ppl have pointed me to the appropriate
place (not all of which are easy to find if you're a relative
novice in sysadmin terms) everything *is* in the docs. Understanding
it once it's there is another matter. New sysadmin's have to learn
somewhere. If they haven't the advantage of a degree, they have to
learn from the friendly and helpful people who make up the internet
community. Let's face it guys, it all works because you guys help
out the new guys, who become experienced and help out more new guys.
That's why we're a *community* right?
I've asked several stupid questions and some relevant questions
since I've been here, and i've recieved a great deal of very
valuable help and instruction from this list, noteably Mate Wierdl
and Mr Sam. I'm new to sysadmining. However, I've been able to pass
on what I@ve learnt, both in the Apache sphere and the qmail sphere,
to other ppl even newer, so that they don't bother you experienced
guys, but they do get their systems running.
Qmail documentation is impressive in it's comprehensiveness but
it is a little less so in it's comprehension. It can be very difficult
to understand what is being said, be it as it may that what is said
is entirely accurate. One example of this is the sheer number of ppl
(I was one and i@ve seen the thread recur several times just in the
month I've been here) who read the setup info as instructing them to
place virtual domains in rcpthosts, virtualdomains *and*locals*; the
documentation isn't wrong, but it's quite easy to misunderstand.
The fact that everything can be found and that some questions are
stupid (the particular question I asked which prompted this thread
happens to be one of them; if I'd re-read the FAQ rather than the
list archives I'd have caught it myself) doesn't mean that ppl,
particularly people new to the game like myself, are going to need
*and*benefit*from* advice and help from more experienced users like
yourselves.
Do, please, be tolerant and patient with us; we do learn, it's
just a little hard for us if we are rebutted and end up trying
to learn in a vaccuum. Fortunately for *my* operations, that
hasn't happned to me.. I pray it doesn't happen to anyone else here.
~cHris
