From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Apr 5 10:48:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A22B37B41C; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g35ImT555986; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:48:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:48:29 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Samuel Chow Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36727: Mail chapter of Handbook is incomplete Message-ID: <20020405134829.B55923@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020404062954.6607E2E827@mail.freebsdmall.com> <004701c1dbfb$8e1faf80$2784412f@ca.nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004701c1dbfb$8e1faf80$2784412f@ca.nortel.com>; from cyschow@shaw.ca on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:10:00AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:10:00AM -0700, Samuel Chow wrote: > > > We only include 1 paragraph on MUAs in the mail chapter of the FreeBSD > > Handbook. This is very valuable information that new users need. We > > should add at least 5 pages talking about installation and usage of > > Mutt, Pine, fetchmail, the concepts of local Unix mailboxes vs POP3 / > > IMAP. Available IMAP clients for FreeBSD. Pointer to the SSH > > tunnelling section for these insecure protocols, etc.. > > Hey, I run fetchmail, qmail, mailfilter, and courier-imap > on the server side, and I use Outlook Express (for my wife) > and sylpheed on the client side. Maybe I know a thing or > two about this mail business. Not that I am a good writer > or anything, but I am willing to try. In general, to any lurkers on the list: If you provide content, we will provide grammar, syntax, and all the other things that make a document. We do appreciate it if you use ispell, though, so we know which are legitimate tech terms and which are misspellings. In my Copious Free Time, of which I have none, I've been starting to touch up the language in the existing docs. Don't sweat it too much. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message