Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:11:20 +0200 (CEST) From: mark@remotelab.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/56296: Some suggestions for the handbook mail chapter. Message-ID: <200309012311.h81NBKfa001219@einstein.lab> Resent-Message-ID: <200309012320.h81NKFLN035036@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 56296
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Some suggestions for the handbook mail chapter.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 01 16:20:15 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Marco Trentini
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD einstein.lab 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 21 17:29:19 CEST 2003 root@einstein.lab:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EINSTEIN i386
>Description:
I have some suggestions for the handbook mail chapter. See the Fix section.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- chapter.diff begins here ---
--- chapter.sgml.old Tue Sep 2 00:14:56 2003
+++ chapter.sgml Tue Sep 2 00:18:20 2003
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>How to use SMTP with UUCP.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>How to use mail with a dialup connection.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>How to configure SMTP Authentication for added security.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -1151,8 +1159,7 @@
CDROM mounted, do:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /cdrom/src</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>cat scontrib.?? | tar xzf - -C /usr/src
-contrib/sendmail</userinput></screen>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>cat scontrib.?? | tar xzf - -C /usr/src/contrib/sendmail</userinput></screen>
<para>This extracts to only a few hundred kilobytes. The file
<filename>README</filename> in the <filename>cf</filename>
@@ -1258,7 +1265,10 @@
by the address you wish to test for the mail routing. The last
line tells you the used internal mail agent, the destination
host this agent will be called with, and the (possibly
- translated) address. Leave this mode by typing Control-D.</para>
+ translated) address. Leave this mode by typing <keycombo action="simul">
+ <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
+ <keycap>D</keycap>
+ </keycombo>.</para>.</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>sendmail -bt</userinput>
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
--- chapter.diff ends here ---
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