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<dt><b>Plain text, 72 characters per line</b>

<dd>Many subscribers and developers read their mail on text-based mailers

like <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mail">mail(1)</a>,

like <a href="http://man.openbsd.org?query=mail">mail(1)</a>,

emacs or mutt, and they often find HTML-formatted messages (or lines that

stretch beyond 72 characters) unreadable.

Most OpenBSD mailing lists strip messages of MIME content before sending

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the relevant documents, such as the <tt>INSTALLi.*</tt> text files in the

installation directories, the <a href="faq/index.html">FAQ</a> and the

relevant man pages (start with

afterboot(8)</a>).

Also check the mailing list <a href="#Archives">archives</a>.

We want to help, but we wouldn't want to deprive you of a valuable

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version</a> of OpenBSD.

Any hardware-related questions should mention the platform (i386, amd64,

etc.) and provide a full

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dmesg">dmesg(8)</a>.

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org?query=dmesg">dmesg(8)</a>.

Hardware model numbers, unfortunately, don't indicate much about the

actual content of a particular machine or accessory, and are useless to

anyone who doesn't have that exact machine sitting where they can easily

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The OpenBSD mailing lists use

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd">spamd(8)</a>

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org?query=spamd">spamd(8)</a>

in greylisting mode as well as <a href="http://www.spamassassin.org">

SpamAssassin</a> to keep down the spam volume, but things do sneak through

from time to time -- deal with it.

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In this case, you should use a <em>smart host</em> mail configuration

that utilizes your ISP's mail server.

See the examples in

smtpd.conf(5)</a> for how to do this.

<a name="Lists"></a><h2><font color="#e00000">The Mailing Lists</font></h2>

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<dd><a href="report.html">Bug reports</a> as sent in via

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sendbug">sendbug(1)</a>

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org?query=sendbug">sendbug(1)</a>

and follow-up discussions.