On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Nancy McGough wrote:
4] Users of "Internet boxes" that access their mail folder(s) on a
Unix server
The last three groups are dependent upon the first for some basic mailer
setup (e.g. installing procmail properly in the first place) which, at
least in my opinion, somewhat rules them out, at least if the book is ONLY
about procmail. I know how difficult it can be to have ones own
organization install procmail.
Yes, it's true that these last groups are dependent on system
administrators to install procmail, but I don't think this rules them out
of the audience. I actually think that the majority of the audience will
be people in these last three groups, i.e., users like me. But I don't
know... Out of curiosity, how many people on this list are system
administrators?
I am not the system admn for our group.
But I create the procmail recipes that we , and our clients, use.
Just because someone might not have direct control over the procmail
process doesn't mean they don't create filters and the like. So I may not
need the chapter on the care and feeding of the procmail process, or how
to install it (actually, I install a lot of software on our system, so I
would like to read that part! :) ), but I sure would eat up the other
sections, as well as have clients buy the book and refer to certain pages
when they have problems.
It sure would lower my tech support level!
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