On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM, D G Teed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I can't understand the developer's notes, I usually emulate > something that works from useful examples.
As a relatively recent newcomer to Postfix (I've been running qmail since 2002 and Postfix since last year) I agree with that statement. More examples would definitely be a good thing. This mailing list is an absolutely excellent source for information and specialist advise. But I also feel that I need to ask unnecessarily simple questions just because I can't find an example of what I'm trying do while not yet having a sufficient grasp of the Postfix system. Documents often feel to me like "expanded RFCs": they state exactly – and usually in very technical terms – how different parts of the system work. The bridge to their application is often not obvious especially to someone who has started using the system recently. Individual command descriptions frequently have a brief example of that specific item's use, and there is the "standard configuration examples" section in the documentation, but often more advanced setups require a coordinated use of various configuration parameters (e.g. the solution to my question about "transposing" an incoming email to a different user/domain and to be delivered at a different smtp interface that Victor helped me with). Perhaps there could be a user-editable Wiki where Postfix users could post examples for various configurations. There seems to have been some discussion<http://www.usenet-forums.com/mailing-postfix-users/186382-postfix-wiki.html>about this in the past (" PostfixWiki.org"), but PostfixWiki seems to be mostly an alternative interface to the documentation plus some links to external Postfix how-to's. Just some thoughts.. (and please pardon me for going off-topic). Ville
