From: Sam Carleton (ehclinux-info.net)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 12:52:35 CST

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Magnus Bck wrote:
> On Monday, March 01, 2004 at 12:05 CET,
> Sam Carleton <ehclinux-info.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I played with adding things to the canonical file, but no where have
> > I been able to find out what the format of cononical should be.
>
> man 5 canonical

I, Sam Carleton, am a want-to-be geek; I am a geek because I have
been using UNIX of one flavor or another for about ten years. The
want-to-be is comes from the fact that 70% of the man pages, still
today, remain Greek to me, and I ain't Greek, by the way.

I guess another way to put it is this: I am dense, I cannot figure
out man pages most of the time! I read the man page for canonical a
number of times but am too stupid to be able to figure out the
format of the file is without some examples. I know that idiots
like me have no business working with complex things like UNIX and
especially Postfix. But then it is free and dim-witted people, such
as myself, like to play with complex things to make ourselves feel
like we know more then we really do. No matter...

I am hope that one of your wise and intelligent folks will have
sympathy enough to tell me what I lack the IQ to figure out myself:
The format of the canonical file.

Here is the problem I can too ignorant to solve myself:

I played with adding things to the canonical file, but no where have
I been able to find out what the format of cononical should be. I
tried both:

mikejones mj

and

mikejones: mj

Neither worked.

Sam Carleton, the stupid one

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