The exim 4 book written by Phil Hazel is *very* good.
It's one of the best purchases I've made.
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On 24 Jan 2010, at 13:37, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:23:22AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> I suppose the documentation quality is based on what you compare it to.
>> As compared to most open source projects it's good. But there is always
>> room for improvement. The docs for PHP are very good. Exim could use
>> more examples. Although Exim does have a lot of example, many are not
>> very good. Perhaps having more that one example would help. And a how-to
>> to accomplish specific tasks.
>
> I agree that there could be more examples. There is an easy way of doing
> this, add stuff to the wiki at: http://exim.org/
>
> If you think that it is not good enough, will you add to the wiki what you learned
> when you worked out how to do something ? I have done so on a few occasions,
> I prob ought to do more.
>
> Remember that exim is open source: that includes the documentation as well
> as the program source.
>
>> I'm not trying to knock Exim's docs. But I think the perspective of a
>> new user is helpful. Most of us learned Exim from back when it was
>> small. We might want to rethink the docs to see if they can be improved.
>
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