It's well known that Exim's documentation is excellent. It's also well known, on this list anyway, that a lot of people have a hard time finding answers to their questions on the web.
Just by way of an example, I was recently trying to find out how to pipe a mail message through a perl script that would squash it down to SMS size during delivery to an SMS e-mail gateway. I Googled for things like exim, pipe, sms, perl. What I found was mainly irrelevant over-6-year-old mailing list messages. Even when I Google for the totally specific keywords exim and transport_filter (which ideally would have shown up somewhere in the original search) nothing from exim.org shows up in the first 6 pages of results. This pattern is common, and it means that finding correct, up to date, relevant Exim information is harder than finding information on many other broadly similar topics (eg, try finding information on mysql backups, php character encodings, javascript regular expressions, etc). Which is not to say that the information doesn't exist. It clearly does, and it's followable and informative. But the problem is knowing where to look for it in the first place, and people like me (well, me anyway) have got used to using Google as a universal source of information. I know I can grep the text documentation, and I can also search on exim.org directly, but I can't help thinking the world would be a better place if exim.org was better indexed by Google. I suppose the ideal would be that a Google search for exim and transport_filter would find a page like http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch24.html#transport_filter. As it happens, the correct url seems to be http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch24.html#id2626250, but I don't think this is linked to anywhere on the web. I don't have any real ideas about how to go about improving the Google searchability of exim.org, so this is just a rather unhelpful whinge, but perhaps one that others can relate to, and one that someone somewhere might be able to mitigate. Chris -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
