Topic: no help

[Roosevelt]

I am not trying to sound ungrateful for the help that recieved in the past on a few of the questions that I have posted. I recieve no help on the last few messages that I posted i've had a previous cgi question and one other e-mail question that i did recieve a little help on what i want to know is if i buy the e-smith guide will all my questions be answered

[Dan Brown]

I'm not aware of an "e-smith guide" that's for sale--there's the manual, of course, but it's available for download for free.  Keep in mind that this is a free forum, and the questions here are answered in people's free time, as they feel like it and get around to it.  Many of the participants here (myself included) simply won't respond to a question that doesn't make any sense.

For example, your last question: "how do I start/use qmail" struck me as completely nonsensical--it starts automatically, and you "use" it just like any other mail server.  Since you didn't give any indication of what it is you're actually trying to do, it's about impossible to give you a useful answer.

[Scott Smith]

Dan has stated the situation very well. To that I would add that this is the General forum. Questions about creating CGI applications and mucking about with qmail are probably better posed in the Experienced forum, or on the devinfo mailing list if you are attempting to create an e-smith add-on package.

Also, there is a distinction between making use of the services and functions provided and managed by the e-smith system, and making use of the underlying Linux distribution.

The "e-smithed" bits have a finite scope and are more or less well addressed in the manual and by searching the forums or by posting a specific question to the appropriate forum. For example, I am having problems getting PPTP VPN to work -- that is a specific "e-smithed" feature and later today I'll be posing my question in the Experienced forum, but only if I can't find the answer by searching first.

The fact that a Linux distribution, basically a bare bones Red Hat distro, underlies the e-smith layer, means that if you can do it with Linux there is probably a way to do it on e-smith. The limitations are how much time you have to invest and how much knowledge you have of Linux in general, the effects of e-smith-ification on the Red Hat distro, and how to integrate ??? into that framework.

Naturally, the good folks at e-smith and those who monitor and contribute freely to these forums are all happy to help in these types of endeavors if the end result will be something of interest to other e-smithers; however, answers to questions such as "How do I write a CGI script?" or "How do I use qmail?" are likely to go unanswered as they don't convey an e-smith-specific purpose. There are other forums and sites that provide such general information and will answer questions of that ilk, and those are your better bet for such queries. You may find, however, that help is available here if there is a stated e-smith reason, such as "I'm writing a contrib for managing the qmail queue -- how do I create a CGI interface to my queue management program?" That question would surely get a response (well, in devinfo, where it should be posed.)

Cheers

Scott

[roosevelt]

thanks sorry if i sounded ungrateful im just getting angry because im trying to do something and i dont know if it will work thanks for all of your help

[Dan Brown]

Well, yet again, if you'd explain just what it is you're trying to do, perhaps we could help.  All I can figure out is that you think you want to do something with qmail.  e-smith uses a standard installation of qmail, so the documentation on qmail.org would probably help, but there's no way of answering a question that you haven't asked.

[Roosevelt]

the other messages that i had posted were just mild confusion on my part I didnt know what i wanted to say but I did knew what i wanted to do I should have had a little patience an took a little time and made my questions more clear i apologize for any confusion