From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 0:26:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6667111218 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 3546 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Feb 1999 03:01:13 -0000 Message-ID: <19990218030113.3545.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:01:13 +1000 From: Greg Black To: cjclark@home.com Cc: zach@bane.mi.org, cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail setting References: <199902170312.WAA03013@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: <199902170312.WAA03013@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:12:31 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > How about the standard way of doing this, which is *much* > > simpler than any of these bizarre schemes? > > Because it took me too long to find 'man 5 forward' since it is never > referenced at all by 'man sendmail' or 'man mail.' Until I finally > spotted 'forward' on the apropos output, the only reference I saw was > in 'man aliases.' As a general rule, remember that apropos(1) is your friend. Yes, it would be nice if every man page had every entry it ought to have in the See Also section; but since they often don't, it's always worth checking anything like this with apropos before deciding that there's no information. That doesn't just apply to this question, of course, but is a general guide for self-help under any Unix system. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message