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Reworked References structure: Collect them all in one Chapter.
Have list of websites separately.
author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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date | Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:16:35 +0200 |
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1.1 --- a/discussion.roff Sun Jul 15 18:42:08 2012 +0200 1.2 +++ b/discussion.roff Sun Jul 15 19:16:35 2012 +0200 1.3 @@ -75,19 +75,8 @@ 1.4 Instead, the aspects of email should be covered by multiple projects, 1.5 which then can be combined to form a complete system. 1.6 Excellent implementations for the various aspects of email already exist. 1.7 -Just to name three examples: Postfix 1.8 -.[ 1.9 -postfix website 1.10 -.] 1.11 -is a specialized MTA, Procmail 1.12 -.[ 1.13 -procmail website 1.14 -.] 1.15 -is a specialized MDA, and Fetchmail 1.16 -.[ 1.17 -fetchmail website 1.18 -.] 1.19 -is a specialized MRA. 1.20 +Just to name three examples: Postfix is a specialized MTA, Procmail 1.21 +is a specialized MDA, and Fetchmail is a specialized MRA. 1.22 I believe that it is best to use such specialized tools instead of 1.23 providing the same function once more as a side component. 1.24 .P 1.25 @@ -126,9 +115,6 @@ 1.26 Focusing on one mail agent role only, is motivated by Eric Allman's 1.27 experience with Sendmail. 1.28 He identified the limitation of Sendmail 1.29 -.[ 1.30 -sendmail website 1.31 -.] 1.32 to the MTA task as one reason for its success: 1.33 .[ [ 1.34 costales sendmail 1.35 @@ -164,11 +150,7 @@ 1.36 It must read the message from the standard input, extract the 1.37 recipient addresses from the message header, and hand the message 1.38 over to the MSA. 1.39 -For example, a wrapper script for qmail 1.40 -.[ 1.41 -qmail website 1.42 -.] 1.43 -would be: 1.44 +For example, a wrapper script for qmail would be: 1.45 .VS 1.46 #!/bin/sh 1.47 exec qmail-inject # ignore command line arguments 1.48 @@ -312,39 +294,11 @@ 1.49 Also, the popular MSAs and MRAs have large communities and a lot 1.50 of available documentation. 1.51 1.52 -Choices for MSAs range from small forwarders such as 1.53 -.[ 1.54 -ssmtp website 1.55 -.] 1.56 -and, 1.57 -.[ 1.58 -nullmailer website 1.59 -.] 1.60 -over mid-size MTAs including 1.61 -.[ 1.62 -masqmail website 1.63 -.] 1.64 -and, 1.65 -.[ 1.66 -dma dragonfly mail agent website 1.67 -.] 1.68 -up to full-featured MTAs as for instance. 1.69 -.[ 1.70 -postfix website 1.71 -.] 1.72 -MRAs are provided for example by 1.73 -.[ [ 1.74 -fetchmail website 1.75 -.] 1.76 -.[ 1.77 -getmail website 1.78 -.] 1.79 -.[ 1.80 -mpop website 1.81 -.] 1.82 -.[ 1.83 -fdm website 1.84 -.]]. 1.85 +Choices for MSAs range from small forwarders such as \fIssmtp\fP and 1.86 +\fInullmailer\fP, over mid-size MTAs including \fImasqmail\fP and 1.87 +\fIdma\fP, up to full-featured MTAs as for instance \fIPostfix\fP. 1.88 +MRAs are provided for example by \fIfetchmail\fP, \fIgetmail\fP, 1.89 +\fImpop\fP, and \fIfdm\fP. 1.90 1.91 1.92 .H2 "Non-MUA Tools 1.93 @@ -904,9 +858,6 @@ 1.94 .Sw --disable-mhe 1.95 was removed when the MH-E support was reworked. 1.96 MH-E is the Emacs front-end to MH. 1.97 -.[ 1.98 -mh-e emacs website 1.99 -.] 1.100 It requires MH to provide minor additional functions. 1.101 The 1.102 .Sw --disable-mhe 1.103 @@ -2414,10 +2365,7 @@ 1.104 .Pn mhsign 1.105 handles the signing and encrypting part. 1.106 It comprises about 250 lines of shell code and interfaces between 1.107 -.Pn gnupg " 1.108 -.[ 1.109 -gnupg website 1.110 -.] 1.111 +.Pn gnupg 1.112 and the MH system. 1.113 It was meant to be invoked manually at the WhatNow prompt, but in mmh, 1.114 .Pn send