Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:29:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Running sendmail (was: Help with sending a PR) Message-ID: <19990208112933.Q86778@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:56:25PM %2B0000 References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com>
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On Sunday, 7 February 1999 at 22:56:25 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Sunday, 7 February 1999 at 2:39:34 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >>>> >>>> Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> writes: >>>>> I've made a small enhancement to csh(1) and want to submit it. Reading >>>>> the handbook it says to include patches in the PR (in the FIX section). >>>>> What is the best way to do this? Copying and pasting into the browser >>>>> will trash TABs, converting them to spaces, so the patch won't work, >>>>> unless it's applied with the ``-l'' option. >>>> >>>> The browser? What browser? Use send-pr and your editor's "include >>>> file" command (:r filename<RET> in vi, C-x i filename<RET> in Emacs) >>> >>> Ah, come on, give me a break, this is the first time I've done this. >>> >>> I said I'm going to have to do it on-line on the Website, which means >>> using a browser. I know how to include a file in vi, but doesn't send-pr >>> use sendmail? which I haven't got installed. My only concern is that if >>> I enter the diffs by copying & pasting then the TABS will be converted >>> to spaces so the patches won't work (without the ``-l'' option). >> >> Hmm. Doing this with a browser is really rather like sending a boy on >> a man's job. Losing tabs is not such a crisis, but losing line breaks >> is, and both browsers and Microsoft's toy mailers like to do that. >> This might be a good time to think about setting up mail on your >> FreeBSD box. It's not difficult. If you can't do that, send me the >> text of the PR and ftp the file to ftp://ftp.lemis.com/incoming/, and >> I'll do it for you. > > OK guys, that's it. I've had enough "get yourself a _proper_ mailer" > advice. I've done it. Congratulation :-) > I've installed mutt _and_ I've got it to d/l my mail from our mail > server at work (which is where all my e-mail comes through). It was > even easier than The Book said, I didn't need popclient as I just > needed to setup some POP stuff in ~/.muttrc then type ``G''. :-) > > Now all I've got to do is figure out how to make sendmail send my mail > (you'll notice from the header that I sent this message with Netscape). > I've looked at the manpage, the handbook, FAQ, and The Book but they > haven't really helped, Would you care to say what you didn't find on pages 465-468 of The Book? I'm in the process of revising it for the Third Edition, so it would be a good time. > they seem more to do with receiving mail. Well, there's more to it than there is to sending. > One last thing. I still haven't learned all the keystrokes in mutt yet > and sometimes use the wrong one, e.g. ``f'' to move to the next page (as > in vi). However as this means ``forward'' I get a ``To: '' prompt. How > do I cancel it? ESC and Ctrl-D don't work, Ctrl-C does but asks ``Exit > mutt?'' with ``y'' as the default answer. What is the correct key to > cancel a command? If you get the To: prompt, just press Enter without anything else, and it'll stop trying. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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