On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 06:41 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 5/19/2009, Steve (steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk) wrote:
> > Just where is anything fully documented with Postfix? There is a lot of
> > 'half' documentation Ralf and plenty of 'assumed that you know'. It the
> > documentation was soooo great I would not have had to ask on a list for
> > something rather basic like this.
>
> Eh? Postfix has some of, if not the, best documentation of any app I
> have ever used, including commercial software.
>
> If you disagree, please point to the doc section that is lacking.
>
> Unless of course you're talking about $random_howto found somewhere on
> the net, in which case surely you aren't blaming postfix for the quality
> or lack thereof?
>
Here is one stunning example;
http://www.postfix.org/uce.html#rbl_reply_maps
Specifically;
Syntax:
Specify zero or more domain names, /file/name patterns and/or
type:name lookup tables, separated by whitespace and/or commas.
A /file/name is replaced by its contents; type:name requests
that table lookup is done instead of string comparison.
Following this cryptic clue with 4 hours of experimenting I gave up.
Funny thing was it was solved for me by a "$random_howto found somewhere
on the net"
I suspect this comes down to the TOP GOOGLE HITS AND THE LINK ABOVE
CARRYING THIS WARNING;
Note: this web page is no longer maintained. It exists only to avoid
breaking links in web pages that describe earlier versions of the
Postfix mail system
You would assume that being a postfix.org URL it may be remotely
'legitimate' documentation and useful. I guess I'm still to find the
"best documentation of any app" - subject to finding the MAN for
locating the current MAN for the current version of DOC at
anyones.guess.com
