Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:10:33 +0200 From: "Gabor PALI" <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/124148: [patch] Fix sendmail Tags in FAQ Message-ID: <4840350b.24034e0a.2422.3900@mx.google.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200805301720.m4UHK1UX075160@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 124148 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] Fix sendmail Tags in FAQ >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 30 17:20:00 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gabor PALI >Release: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy@disznohal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_ i386 >Description: As far as I know, sendmail is spelled in lowercase letters and you can see many examples for this in the FreeBSD Handbook [1]. This convention should be also followed in the FreeBSD FAQ, so I created a patch to fix this problem and added <application> tags to them. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sendmail.html >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- books.faq.patch.29.diff begins here --- Index: book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.827 diff -u -r1.827 book.sgml --- book.sgml 27 May 2008 23:51:07 -0000 1.827 +++ book.sgml 30 May 2008 03:27:37 -0000 @@ -3378,13 +3378,13 @@ <qandaentry> <question id="mail-loopback"> - <para>Why does Sendmail give me an error reading + <para>Why does <application>sendmail</application> give me an error reading <quote><errorname>mail loops back to myself</errorname></quote>?</para> </question> <answer> - <para>This is answered in the sendmail FAQ as follows:</para> + <para>This is answered in the <application>sendmail</application> FAQ as follows:</para> <literallayout> * I'm getting "Local configuration error" messages, such as: @@ -3402,8 +3402,8 @@ </literallayout> <para>The current version of the <ulink - url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq">sendmail - FAQ</ulink> is no longer maintained with the sendmail release. + url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq"><application>sendmail + FAQ</application></ulink> is no longer maintained with the <application>sendmail</application> release. It is however regularly posted to <ulink url="news:comp.mail.sendmail">comp.mail.sendmail</ulink>, <ulink url="news:comp.mail.misc">comp.mail.misc</ulink>, <ulink @@ -6217,11 +6217,11 @@ <qandaentry> <question id="sendmail-alternative"> <para>What other mail-server software can I use instead of - Sendmail?</para> + <application>sendmail</application>?</para> </question> <answer> - <para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</ulink>; is + <para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/"><application>Sendmail</application></ulink>; is the default mail-server software for FreeBSD, but you can easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance, an MTA installed from the ports).</para> @@ -6237,7 +6237,7 @@ <para>Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many different mail-servers to chose from is considered a good thing; therefore try to avoid - asking questions like <quote>Is Sendmail better than + asking questions like <quote>Is <application>sendmail</application> better than Qmail?</quote> in the mailing lists. If you do feel like asking, first check the mailing list archives. The advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the @@ -8528,12 +8528,12 @@ <qandaentry> <question id="sendmail-port-587"> - <para>Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the + <para><application>sendmail</application> is listening on port 587 as well as the standard port 25! What is going on?</para> </question> <answer> - <para>Recent versions of Sendmail support a + <para>Recent versions of <application>sendmail</application> support a mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is not yet widely supported, but is growing in popularity.</para> @@ -9156,7 +9156,7 @@ <para>In the DNS case, you should try to determine what is actually trying to resolve a host name. A lot of the time, &man.sendmail.8; is the culprit. You should make - sure that you tell sendmail not to do any DNS lookups in + sure that you tell <application>sendmail</application> not to do any DNS lookups in its configuration file. See the section on <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/smtp-dialup.html">using email with a dialup connection</ulink> in the FreeBSD Handbook for @@ -9167,7 +9167,7 @@ <programlisting>define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `d')dnl</programlisting> - <para>This will make sendmail queue everything until the + <para>This will make <application>sendmail</application> queue everything until the queue is run (usually, sendmail is invoked with <option>-bd -q30m</option>, telling it to run the queue every 30 minutes) or until a <command>sendmail --- books.faq.patch.29.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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