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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:50:03 -0800
From:      Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in ports howto question
Message-ID:  <20031125115003.GA39842@kosmos.my.net>
In-Reply-To: <B9D9BD71E387E24AB1D619FE4B748CC70C7D73@ERWIN.intern.seceidos.de>
References:  <B9D9BD71E387E24AB1D619FE4B748CC70C7D73@ERWIN.intern.seceidos.de>

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On  0, Jan-Peter Koopmann <Jan-Peter.Koopmann@seceidos.de> wrote:
:Hi Allan,
: 
: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...

Actually, the process is considerably more complex than setting 
a smart host in sendmail.mc, although I wish it were not.

The instructions to setup mail under smtp-auth, which Simon Barner
is working on, total to about a 1700-line document.

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

Well, if you check out bug #58500, you can see for yourself:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/58500

I think there is something in Outlook that will badly mangle an
attachment to GNATS.

-- 
Allan Bowhill
abowhill@blarg.net

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power
		-- Ashleigh Brilliant



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