On 24 Jan 2010, at 04:41, exim@??? wrote:
> Exim appears to be a good product but the documentation appears to have
> been written by its author who has contributed substantial amounts of
> hard and dedicated thinking with lots of good logic. The author is too
> close to Exim to contemplate the realities and requirements of
> enthusiastic users like me.
The main documentation is the specification. This is reference
level documentation. There is a sold need for tutorial
documentation - this is addressed by the exim books - see
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http://uit.co.uk/content/exim-smtp-mail-server
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http://uit.co.uk/content/exim-example
> The problem with Exim documentation is one can't easily implement one's
> own ideas because of the structure and content of the documentation.
> Often one is left wondering how the hell do I do that?
There is also the main problem that everyone thinks they can run
their own mail server. Frankly they are wrong. Email used to be a
major function which was implemented by people who had some idea of
the RFCs and what *should* be done. Now everyone with a workstation
thinks they can run their own email system - documentation is not
structured for the requirements of the truely ignorant (and
possibly it should not be).
> [....] The Exim web site also needs a facelift
> and should abandon the ancient technique of frames. Put the choices at
> the top of the page and have CSS menus.
Please implement a replacement. I don't have time - and frankly no
inclination since it just means that people spend their time
sniping - the current content is available in the CVS repository.
Put up or shut up.
[Its probably worth pointing out that there are basically no people
volunteering to do any work. I no longer have any time, nor do I
have any other contact with email systems so I don't have any
impetus to work on it, so I am not scheduling any further time on
exim work. "Constructive" criticism without any actual input is
frankly of no use whatsoever ]
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[ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
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