Michael Str?der: > Reasons why there is no such HOWTO maintained for a long time: > > People asking for HOWTOs are not capable writing decent HOWTOs. If they went > through their own learning curve leading to good working results they usually > have no interest to share the insights with others. They simply use free > software as free beer.
This segment also contains may people whose primary responsibility is not maintaining a mail server. These want "tell me what do to, I don't want to learn" advice. > Authors of existing HOWTOs loose interest to spend the time keeping up with > current development. (That's understandable given the amount of unpaid time > needed to make high-quality docs.) I had hoped that some of th professional sysadmins would take this up, since they are caring for Postfix etc. across software releases. Perhaps they are a dying breed. Wietse