Topic: DKIM signing not working? [SOLVED]

[janet]

byte

You are applying the wrong definition to determine how this thread should be "filed".
Rather than using the definition "no contrib has been installed" & therefore concluding that this thread should be in the SME9.x forum, I suggest you read the forum headings.
SME Server 9.x
Discussion of the use of *ONLY* the components and features included on the SME Server 9.x CD

SME 9.x Contribs
Discussions related to development and use of addons for SME Server. Discuss user-contributed rpms, howto's and scripts here.

Note the Contribs forum category refers to howto's.

If you look at the bottom of this page (which is the wiki article referred to in this thread)
https://wiki.contribs.org/Email#DKIM_Setup
it is a Howto
& it details adding a custom template, so standard sme server settings are changed, so it is no longer a stock standard sme server as installed from the CD.

[byte]

byte

You are applying the wrong definition to determine how this thread should be "filed".

OK, you win, not sure why I really care about this 

[DanB35]

Creating a one-line custom template fragment is no more a "contrib" than is setting a config database entry from the CLI that isn't exposed in the server-manager.  And if following a "how-to" article means the thread belongs here, there'd be nothing left to go in the SME 9 forum.

There's a (strong, IMO) argument that this question is perfectly appropriate in the base SME 9 forum--all I'm doing is trying to turn on a feature that's already packaged with SME 9.  The argument for calling it a contrib, I guess, is that you have to use the shell to do it, because there isn't a button in the server-manager to turn this on.  Or, maybe, that the wiki told me how to do it?

So is that the dividing line?  Anything that requires that you use the CLI is automatically a contrib?  That doesn't leave much for the SME Server 9.x forum.

[janet]

DanB35

I think you are interpreting things wrongly also.
You keep using the word "contrib" as the criteria, but the SME 9.x Contribs forum category title is more wide ranging than this, as it includes Howto's as well as contribs & other scripts & mods etc.

Also the SME9.x forum excludes by definition any changes made to the base system, which includes custom templates. Things can go amazingly wrong if a custom template is written incorrectly & the base system cannot really be blamed.

It is pretty clear to me.
The definition of content & which Forum category it should go into, is defined by the Forum title
ie
SME Server 9.x
Discussion of the use of *ONLY* the components and features included on the SME Server 9.x CD

SME 9.x Contribs
Discussions related to development and use of addons for SME Server. Discuss user-contributed rpms, howto's and scripts here.

So is that the dividing line?  Anything that requires that you use the CLI is automatically a contrib?  That doesn't leave much for the SME Server 9.x forum.

No that is simplifying it too much.
If a feature can be changed using the standard settings or the standard accepted range of variables that are catered for by the sme server code, by using either the server manager, console menu, or command line, & using the standard templates (as installed), then yes it is a base sme9.x issue.
If that range of settings is modified to include variables that are not in the base install eg by using a custom template, then it becomes a sme9.x contribs forum issue.
Isn't that clear ?

I can see why there is interpretive variation here ie we are tweaking an existing plug in, but the above is how I read it in a strict sense ie we are tweaking an existing plug in, but out of the range of standard provided settings.