From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 12:09:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8466010656A7 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:09:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F868FC12 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:09:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4D3582FB.1030709@ose.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:09:31 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110118.045706.6321.0@webmail05.dca.untd.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: documentation OF FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:09:34 -0000 On 01/18/2011 12=3A04 PM=2C Ross Cameron wrote=3A =3E On Tue=2C Jan 18=2C 2011 at 11=3A57 AM=2C gs=5Fstoller=40juno=2Ecom =3E =3Cgs=5Fstoller=40juno=2Ecom=3Ewrote=3A =3E =3E=3E I remember that there was a documentation project going on= for =3E=3E FreeBSD and =3E=3E I=27d like know its status and URL =2E Hopefully there is a good i= ndex =28I =3E=3E consider this an =3E=3E essential tool in books=29=2E =3E =3E On the FRONT PAGE of the FreeBSD=2Eorg website there is a big ole butto= n with =3E the word =22Documentation=22 on it=3F =3E The link =28for the truely lazy=29 is =3A http=3A//www=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/= docs=2Ehtml =3E =3E=3E Another section I would like to see is one about internet =3E=3E access and also the subsection about email =2E I want to be able t= o access =3E=3E my juno email =3E=3E account and see a list of the received emails =28with the name of th= e sender=2C =3E=3E the subject=2C =3E=3E and date =26 time sent=2C possibly other data=29=2C be able to selec= t emails to =3E=3E read =28and to =3E=3E delete them after they are read at the reader=27s discretion=29=2E= There is also =3E=3E the flip side=2C =3E=3E the ability to create emails=2C specify to whom they are to be sent= =2C and send =3E=3E them=2E =3E=3E =3E All of the above is accomplished using a Mail User Agent =28MUA=29 =3E application=2C=2E=2E=2E there are litterally thousands to choose from s= o it is =3E HIGHLY unlikely that any open source OS will include this in the manual= =2E=2E=2E Even this is in the Handbook http=3A//www=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/doc/handbook/mail-agents=2Ehtml =3E Install a few and decide for youreself what suits you best=2E DISCLAIMER=3A This e-mail is for the intended recipient=28s=29 only=2E Acce= ss=2C disclosure=2C copying=2C distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited=2E If yo= u have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system= =2E