On 13/09/2010 18:10, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is just a soft launch announcement in advance of the PR that > Scott will be kicking up. After recovering from the 304 development > this summer, we're ready to kick into gear the 305 exam development. > > This exam's main focus will be "Mail and Messaging Services". I've > posted a short wiki page up at: > > http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-305 > > > It has a brief list of some technologies to be considered for > coverage. There's at least one that I hope people will vote down ;) > Perhaps my experience is quite limited, but I'm not convinced at all by the topic of messaging services. All my customers are using messaging services only from the client side. I never got a request for installation or maintenance of a messaging server. So at least this argument seems to me quite marginal. I also do not see any usefullness (in term of managing these services) for a detailed knowledge of the XMPP protocol.
Clients for messaging servers are commonly used, but for the vast majority they are Windows clients. And for the Linux ones, almost all of them are GUI programs (and there are a lot more than the two listed on the topic), and each one has a different menu/window for configuration, so I cannot see what kind of question of general relevance you can ask, considering also that this should be an exam for an high level system manager. At least in my experience topics like address book, webmail setup, and calendaring are far more relevant. I would also like to point out that the MTA topic is too generic. There is nothing there but a list of MTAs. I think that topics like multidomain SMTP servers, virtual users, address rewriting, relay control, authenticated SMTP, server side filtering (sieve) etc. should be explicitely listed. Regards Simone _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
