On 13 Dec 2014, at 21:53, ghalvor...@hushmail.com wrote:
Believe me, if there was a newer book, I would have gladly bought it. It did worry me that it was as old as it was, but I gather that the email protocol has changed very little over the past 15 years.
Protocols are mostly stable. Tools implementing those protocols (and deviances from their 'pure' models) are not.
The books are not bad or wrong. They are incomplete. For completeness, read current docs.
A HOWTO that has been around for a few months is still nice, especially if the author maintains it so that the flaws and errors are corrected as people point them out. I am really surprised at how no one really adopts the crowd-source wiki approach. It seems that everybody wants their document in a sterile bubble of web space where people can look, but can't touch.
I've got no problem with crowdsourced evolved documentation. I'm not aware of any such documentation for Postfix that is worth citing.
However, the documentation provided in the Postfix distribution is extensive and seems to me (a flawed judge) to be complete and adequate. When last I looked, the same seemed true for Dovecot. Unified detailed documentation fit for a broad audience is a hard problem, because every site is just a little different from every other site.
