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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:55:09 +0100
From:      "Jan-Peter Koopmann" <Jan-Peter.Koopmann@seceidos.de>
To:        "Allan Bowhill" <abowhill@blarg.net>, <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Bug in ports howto question
Message-ID:  <B9D9BD71E387E24AB1D619FE4B748CC70C7D73@ERWIN.intern.seceidos.de>

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Hi Allan,
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> Needless to say, you need good systems administration skills=20
> to submit new ports to GNATS if you have a dynamic IP on your=20
> development box.

Not really. All you need is a smart-host that is setup correctly.
Usually your ISP should operate one for you. If that smart-host does not
work with GNATS, change the ISP because he does not know what he is
doing. :-)

And setting up a smart-host is not that difficult. Even with sendmail...
:-) Simply look at the .mc file. Google gives something like

define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isps.smtp.server')

to put in the .mc. Then run make and there you go. That's not too hard,
is it? BTW: Personally I think using a smart-host makes a lot of sense
if you have a dynamic IP since many MTAs block dial-up IPs or
connections from IPs without reverse-mapping. I think that this is too
restrictive but nevertheless some admins tend to be that restrictive...

> Yes. That's how I messed up the second submission out of=20
> three. Whatever you do, don't send it as an attachment in=20
> outlook express :)

:-) Just out of curiosity: What happened?

Regards,
  JP



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