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>The Linux Mail User HOWTO</TH
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NAME="resources"
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>4. Other sources of information</H1
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>4.1. USENET</H2
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>There are a number of Usenet groups devoted to electronic-mail
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technical issues:</P
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>comp.mail.elm</A
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><DD
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>the ELM mail system.</P
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>comp.mail.mh</A
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>The Rand Message Handling system.</P
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HREF="news:comp.mail.mime"
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>comp.mail.mime</A
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>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.</P
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>comp.mail.misc</A
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><DD
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>General discussions about computer mail.</P
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>comp.mail.multi-media</A
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>Multimedia Mail.</P
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>comp.mail.mush</A
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><DD
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>The Mail User's Shell (MUSH).</P
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>comp.mail.sendmail</A
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>the BSD sendmail agent.</P
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>comp.mail.smail</A
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>the smail mail agent.</P
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>comp.mail.uucp</A
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>Mail in the uucp environment.</P
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>4.2. Books</H2
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>The following is a non-inclusive set of books that will help...</P
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>Sendmail</DT
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>from O'Reilly and Associates is
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the definitive reference on sendmail-v8 and sendmail+IDA. It's a
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``must have'' for anybody hoping to make sense out of sendmail without
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bleeding in the process.</P
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>The Internet Complete Reference</DT
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><DD
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>from Osborne is a fine reference book that explains the
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various services available on Internet and is a great source for
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information on news, mail, and various other Internet
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resources.</P
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>The Linux Networking Administrators' Guide</DT
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><DD
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>from Olaf Kirch of the LDP is available on the net and is
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also published by (at least) O'Reilly and SSC. It makes a fine
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one-stop shopping guide to learn about everything you ever imagined
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you'd need to know about Unix networking.</P
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>4.3. Periodic USENET Postings</H2
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>Also worth mentioning is Chris Lewis' periodic posting on unix
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e-mail software, which is available on <A
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>ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.mail.misc</A
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as the files named ``UNIX_Email_Software_Survey_*''. An HTMLized
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version is at <A
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HREF="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/setup/unix/"
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>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/setup/unix/</A
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At time of writing in 2005 this posting has not been seriously updated
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since 2000, however.</P
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>4.4. Where <EM
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>not</EM
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><P
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>There is no longer anything special about configuring and
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running mail under Linux, relative to other Unixes. Accordingly, you
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almost certainly do <EM
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>not</EM
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> want to be posting
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generic mail-related questions to the comp.os.linux.*
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newsgroups.</P
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>Unless your posting is truly Linux-specific (ie, ``please tell
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me what routers are already compiled into the SLS1.03 version of
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smail3.1.28'') you should be asking your questions in one of the
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newsgroups or mailing lists referenced above.</P
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>Let me repeat that....</P
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>There is virtually no reason to post anything mail-related in the
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comp.os.linux hierarchy any more. There are existing newsgroups in the
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comp.mail.* hierarchy to handle <EM
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>all</EM
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> your questions.</P
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>If you post to comp.os.linux.* for non-Linux-specific questions,
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you are looking in the wrong place for help. The electronic mail
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experts hang out in the places indicated above and generally not in
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the Linux groups.</EM
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> Posting to the Linux hierarchy for non-linux-specific
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questions wastes your time and everybody else's...and it frequently
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delays you from getting the answer to your question.</EM
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