On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:43:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:15PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I get horribly uncomfortable reading exim documentation, but you have > >> found exactly the bit I needed. Thank you *so* much. > > > > Ain't that the truth. I would have thought after so long with Linux, > > I'd be hardened to all the excellent but technical documentation out > > there. But that one is a git. I should probably get the O'Reilly > > book. > > > > Then again, I have the same problem with Emacs, but perhaps that's > > just me. (Not looking to start a war, even though I use vi most of > > the time, I'm incompetent on that as well!) > > > > Well, count me in :) I do not find the documentation of exim to be > very well writen. I have read, then tried the things i wanted to do and > failed miserably. I only succeeded in doing them because of some > guides and sample exim.conf's i found. Otherwise, it would have > been a no-no. I also thought about buying the book from O'Reilly. > It looks good but i'm not sure it will add a lot of value compared > to the online docs of Exim.
I reckon the exim docs are very good. They are comprehensive and go into pretty good detail; they don't suffer from the common fault of online docs of being too short and sketchy. I will admit they are extremely "Cambridge-flavoured" :-) but the only problem I have with them is the same one that I have with all online docs - that apart from their lack of greppability, dead trees are so much easier to use. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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