On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:40:25AM -0400, Rob Sciuk wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > [...] > > > >The documentation has not yet been updated, I'm working at it right now > >as it's quite an invasive change to the man page. All of this will be > >documented before next release. > > Gilles, > > Is there a repository of sample use cases (sic configuration > examples) for OpenSMTPD? I seem to recall earlier efforts to > collect some. >
Well it's up to people on the list to share their configurations ;-) > In the interval that the man pages do not reflect the actual syntax, > and with the recent changes, I consider the OpenSMTPD software to be > broken, and this comes just as I need to replace an aging > postfix/clam/amavisd server. > Your expectations about snapshots are those of a stable release. You should install 5.3.3 if you want stable code and accurate doc. Snapshots are built from our development branch and contain code that needs testing, that may be subject to changes and that may break. The documentation is not accurate because we write it once the feature is finished as it can evolve drastically between two or three snapshots. > I realize that a series of blog entries have described various > syntax changes over time, but these are not concise, nor are they up > to date, nor are they found in one place. If the man pages are out > of synch with the software, it makes things very difficult for new > users to adopt the opensmtpd mta. > The man pages on stable release are accurate. They now also are on the latest snapshot. > Sorry to vent, but a concise document would be invaluable to the > widespread adoption of this remarkable software ... after all, I see > in your interview on BSD now that world domination is the goal 8-) > ... > I don't have time to work on more than code + man pages, if people want to help with a FAQ, pool of common configurations, they are encouraged to do so. -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
