<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Other sources of information</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Mail User HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Advanced topics" HREF="advanced.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Administrivia" HREF="administrivia.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Mail User HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="advanced.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="administrivia.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="resources" ></A >4. Other sources of information</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="usenet" ></A >4.1. USENET</H2 ><P >There are a number of Usenet groups devoted to electronic-mail technical issues:</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.elm" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.elm</A ></DT ><DD ><P >the ELM mail system.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.mh" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.mh</A ></DT ><DD ><P >The Rand Message Handling system.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.mime" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.mime</A ></DT ><DD ><P >Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.misc" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.misc</A ></DT ><DD ><P >General discussions about computer mail.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.multi-media" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.multi-media</A ></DT ><DD ><P >Multimedia Mail.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.mush" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.mush</A ></DT ><DD ><P >The Mail User's Shell (MUSH).</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.sendmail" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.sendmail</A ></DT ><DD ><P >the BSD sendmail agent.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.smail" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.smail</A ></DT ><DD ><P >the smail mail agent.</P ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="news:comp.mail.uucp" TARGET="_top" >comp.mail.uucp</A ></DT ><DD ><P >Mail in the uucp environment.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="books" ></A >4.2. Books</H2 ><P >The following is a non-inclusive set of books that will help...</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT >Sendmail</DT ><DD ><P >from O'Reilly and Associates is the definitive reference on sendmail-v8 and sendmail+IDA. It's a ``must have'' for anybody hoping to make sense out of sendmail without bleeding in the process.</P ></DD ><DT >The Internet Complete Reference</DT ><DD ><P >from Osborne is a fine reference book that explains the various services available on Internet and is a great source for information on news, mail, and various other Internet resources.</P ></DD ><DT >The Linux Networking Administrators' Guide</DT ><DD ><P >from Olaf Kirch of the LDP is available on the net and is also published by (at least) O'Reilly and SSC. It makes a fine one-stop shopping guide to learn about everything you ever imagined you'd need to know about Unix networking.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="periodic" ></A >4.3. Periodic USENET Postings</H2 ><P >Also worth mentioning is Chris Lewis' periodic posting on unix e-mail software, which is available on <A HREF="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.mail.misc" TARGET="_top" >ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.mail.misc</A > as the files named ``UNIX_Email_Software_Survey_*''. An HTMLized version is at <A HREF="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/setup/unix/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/setup/unix/</A >. At time writing in 1999 this posting has not been seriously updated since 1996, however.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="dontgo" ></A >4.4. Where <EM >not</EM > to look for help</H2 ><P >There is no longer anything special about configuring and running mail under Linux, relative to other Unixes. Accordingly, you almost certainly do <EM >not</EM > want to be posting generic mail-related questions to the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups.</P ><P >Unless your posting is truly Linux-specific (ie, ``please tell me what routers are already compiled into the SLS1.03 version of smail3.1.28'') you should be asking your questions in one of the newsgroups or mailing lists referenced above.</P ><P >Let me repeat that....</P ><P >There is virtually no reason to post anything mail-related in the comp.os.linux hierarchy any more. There are existing newsgroups in the comp.mail.* hierarchy to handle <EM >all</EM > your questions.</P ><P ><EM >If you post to comp.os.linux.* for non-Linux-specific questions, you are looking in the wrong place for help. The electronic mail experts hang out in the places indicated above and generally not in the Linux groups.</EM ></P ><P ><EM > Posting to the Linux hierarchy for non-linux-specific questions wastes your time and everybody else's...and it frequently delays you from getting the answer to your question.</EM ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="advanced.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="administrivia.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Advanced topics</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Administrivia</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >