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Wagner Teixeira wrote:
>I've had many difficulties trying to understand this wonderful and *very*
>poorly documented mail environment (qmail + tools), even with my systems
>expertise and C knowledge. I had to read the source code many times to
>discover some simple issues that ARE NOT IN ANY FUCKING FAQ.
May I respectfully ask what those issues were? I know about as much C
as I do Japanese (which is to say that it's a beautiful language, but
I don't understand much of it yet). I certainly don't wish to insult
anyone's intelligence, but much of this discussion puzzles me. One
reason I chose qmail over our other options was precisely the
meticulous documentation. Really ... I have yet to encounter a single
question (not one!) that I couldn't answer by reading the docs a fifth
or eighth time. I started with a solid Unix background, but only a
general familiarity with SMTP. Did I screw it up? Hell yeah.
Several times. And always because I missed a sentence in the docs.
Bernstein is terse, no doubt about it ... but the ol' boy's also very
thorough. I think so should anyone be who aspires to manage a
networked system. Maybe the documents aren't organized in a way that
makes sense to everybody, but I really believe you should always read
the whole manual before you open the box anyway. The answers are
there, even if they're not where you expect them to be.
Experience can be a liability. Is it possible that you may bring with
you assumptions that frustrated you and clouded your ability to really
read all the documentation?
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David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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