This is classic: the docs help the writers of the material documented, and those that have traveled this path before, to recall what they did or learned before, but are much less helpful to the blank-slate outsider on first approach.
This is a plea to all who write or update Linux documents: please write for the blank-slate newbie.
OK, Brian, here's the first document I've ever written for Linux. It shows how to take a just-installed Red Hat Linux system and require SMTP AUTH user authentication so that you can open Sendmail to receive network connections and not be an open relay. It was written with the blank-slate newbie in mind... would you be so kind as to read it and offer feedback to me? This is the first of hopefully a fair bit of documentation I hope to write, so help me do better! :-)
http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html
Thanks,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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