From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 26 16:29:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA15545 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15456 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA05621; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:28:28 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:28:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Ben Black cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail documentation In-Reply-To: <199603240304.VAA02772@galileo.mr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Ben Black wrote: > I am very impressed with the quality and extent of the FreeBSD handbook. > I noticed the section on Mail is currently empty. I have quite a bit of > sendmail experience and would like to contribute to the documentation if there > is a need for me. Let me know. This would be grand! I envision topics like these: * How internet mail works (in a very small nutshell!) * The role of sendmail (generally speaking, distinguish from user agent) * The "out of the box" sendmail configuration FreeBSD * When and why you might need to change it * how to go about changing it. * /etc/aliases hints, tips and tricks * More about .cf files... * Alternatives to sendmail And maybe... * POP * setting up a pop server * setting up a pop client * setting up majordomo -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============