discuss: Thread: New mini HOWTO

Hello,
	As instructed by the 'new author' section of the LDP Author Guide, located
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/newauthors.html, I am
writing to you to discuss an idea for a new mini HOWTO that I would like to
author.
	As you know, there are many distributions of Linux, with more being
created all the time.  I would like to write a mini HOWTO based on my
experience in the installation of multiple distributions of Linux on a
single computer.  I feel that a HOWTO such as this may give its readers the
'comfort' and information they need to venture out and try new
distributions, without the risk (or perceived risk) of corrupting their
current installation.
	My HOWTO would be distribution agnostic, yet I would also be willing to
share my results with the distributions I've installed anecdotally.  It
would focus on using lilo and cover issues such as sharing swap space and
utilizing multiple drives.
	My own knowledge of this subject has been developed by studying the
various multi-boot HOWTOs, culling newsgroups and my own trial-and-error.
This work has lead me to creating a single machine that boots 5 OSes (3
Linux distros) and a clear procedure that I would like to share with others.
	I have been using Linux in a production environment for the past three
years, and would like this opportunity to give something back to the
community.  I believe that if users could try out more distributions, they
may be willing to install and test a lesser known distribution.  This
flexibility could lead a user to find the distro-specific features they (or
their organization) require to roll Linux out as production system.

I look forward to your comments,


Tom Melendez

After much sweat toil and tears, I have successfuly
installed and have a qmail,vpopmail,qmailadmin server
(on debian) that allows stmp after POP authentication.
The reason I would like to write this is that it took
muc h research to bring all the elements.

If anyone see another how to that I might contribute
to let me know, otherwise I am in the process of
writing and it should take about a day or so

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> After much sweat toil and tears, I have successfuly
> installed and have a qmail,vpopmail,qmailadmin server
> (on debian) that allows stmp after POP authentication.

There's almost no documentation on this - a mini howto for it would 
be very nice indeed.

Morgon
-- 
"Luckily the Evas can run on gasoline... sad to say, they still get 
better mileage than most American cars." -- Gendo Ikari, parody of 
episode 11, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Gerardo Arnaez wrote:

> After much sweat toil and tears, I have successfuly
> installed and have a qmail,vpopmail,qmailadmin server
> (on debian) that allows stmp after POP authentication.
> The reason I would like to write this is that it took
> muc h research to bring all the elements.
> 
> If anyone see another how to that I might contribute
> to let me know, otherwise I am in the process of
> writing and it should take about a day or so

Actually, I also have a debian system, and am in the process of 
setting up a debian pop3/smtp virtual email system with webmail and 
authenticated SMTP.

My tools of choice are postfix/courier/squirrelmail/mysql, and I 
already have a long file with notes that I was going to turn into a 
minihowto.

Unfortunately, I don't see how it will overlap with your howto.

One suggestion though - While doing my SMTP auth, I didn't find a good 
reference on which clients support what authentication methods.  I would 
suggest that in your minihowto, make a brief note on what methods work 
for what clients (especially the biggies - Outlook and Outlook Express.)

Just my two cents,

Jesse Meyer

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