From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 10:05:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764216A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC87743D1D for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031212180543.DZU25110.mta10.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:05:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3FDA0377.3000102@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:05:43 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Pepper References: <3FCBB04F.7070204@potentialtech.com> <20031201221825.GB10158@jenny.daemon.li> <3FCBF8E6.6010208@potentialtech.com> <20031202091804.GB269@jenny.daemon.li> <3FCCB644.500@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:05:45 -0000 Chris Pepper wrote: > At 10:56 AM -0500 2003/12/02, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Josef El-Rayes wrote: > >>> should this really be covered by the handbook? isn't >>> the handbook a resource for freebsd specific topics? >> >> I belive the handbook should have this section. There are many >> circumstances where a FreeBSD machine will need to do mail >> in a "send-only" capacity. Users should be able to find documentation >> on how to make it work. > >> Perhaps the handbook is not the correct place for this? I'm open >> to suggestions, but the handbook was the best place I could find. > > I think this is worth listing. There should be something in the > Handbook so people looking there learn it's possible to send mail > without a fully-configured sendmail installation. It would also be fine > to put this content into the FAQ, and link to it from Chapter 20 > (Electronic Mail), but is probably easier to maintain if it's in the > Handbook proper. It's certainly not doubling the size of the Handbook. ;) Thanks for the support, Chris. > Looking at the rendered > , I see > a few issues (perhaps already fixed in source): > >> Your computer is a desktop machine, but you'll want to use FreeBSD >> programs such as . > > Is send-pr not appearing here for some reason? Oops ... typo, I've fixed it. >> but needs to pass off all mail to a mail relay for processing. > > s/mail to a mail relay/mail to a relay/ > > s/nitch/niche/ > > s/your agreement probably forbids/your agreement may forbid/ Done, thank you much. In case anyone is curious, I'm going to wrap this up and submit a PR for it. I haven't got a lot of feedback, and it's only been a tiny bit negative, we'll see what the comitters think. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com