The TOC for Server Guide

[Matthew East]

Hiya,

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:28 +0100, Lionel Porcheron wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have few remarks concerning the TOC for Server Guide (sorry for coming
> so late...). These are only suggestions, in no particular order.

Nice, thanks for these. I'll comment on some, and leave Bhuvan to do the
hard bits!

> * I think that is a bad idea to groupe in the same chapter "Mail,
> Groupware and Chat Servers". The mail server section will be a quite
> consequent, IRC and Jabber are quitte different. I would put them in a
> separate section called "Instant communication" (for example).

+1

> * As we are talking about Mail, we are missing sections regarding MDA:
> Courier, Dovecot, Cyrus.

We have some material on Dovecot - this is the recommended server for
Ubuntu. http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/dovecot-server.html

> * What about exim in mail servers? We have some documentation on the
> Wiki.

http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/exim4.html

(we do need some material about which choice is appropriate as between
postfix and exim though, AFAICS).

> * I am not happy with having CUPS under "File Server" chapter. It is not
> really linked.

We can make a separate Printing Server chapter, I guess.

> * The "Windows Networking" sections does not seam optimal to me. I would
> more see:
>  * Introduction
>  * Installation
>  * Samba as a PDC
>  * Samba as a member of an AD
>  * Samba with LDAP authentication

No comment :)

> * We are missing sections relative to mail filtering: amavis, clamav,
> postgrey

*shrug*, indifferent about this.

> * What about a vitalization chapter? I would see VMware server and Xen
> sections.

If we can have the material on the wiki tidied up, then we can consider
importing some sections from there.

> * I would not put Wiki applications in a separate section (I would put
> them in Web applications).

+1

> * What about changing the order? I think that most people are interested
> with Web Servers, Mail servers and I would put them in first place.

+1

> Otherwise, It looks very good to me!
> 
> Last, I am happy to help in filling the sections :-). I wrote/contribute
> some pages that cover some of these topics on the wiki.

That will be great! If you need any help with contributing, just let us
know!

Matt
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