Number: 124148
Category: docs
Synopsis: [patch] Fix sendmail Tags in FAQ
Confidential: no
Severity: non-critical
Priority: low
Responsible: freebsd-doc
State: open
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Keywords:
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Class: doc-bug
Submitter-Id: current-users
Arrival-Date: Fri May 30 17:20:00 UTC 2008
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Originator: Gabor PALI
Release: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386
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Environment:

System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy@disznohal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_ i386

Description:

As far as I know, sendmail is spelled in lowercase letters and
you can see many examples for this in the FreeBSD Handbook [1].
This convention should be also followed in the FreeBSD FAQ, so I
created a patch to fix this problem and added <application>
tags to them.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sendmail.html (Who's computer is this?)

How-To-Repeat:

Fix:

--- books.faq.patch.29.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.827
diff -u -r1.827 book.sgml
--- book.sgml27 May 2008 23:51:07 -00001.827
+++ book.sgml30 May 2008 03:27:37 -0000
@@ -3378,13 +3378,13 @@

<qandaentry>
<question id="mail-loopback">
- <para>Why does Sendmail give me an error reading
+ <para>Why does <application>sendmail</application> give me an error reading
<quote><errorname>mail loops back to
myself</errorname></quote>?</para>
</question>

<answer>
- <para>This is answered in the sendmail FAQ as follows:</para>
+ <para>This is answered in the <application>sendmail</application> FAQ as follows:</para>

<literallayout> * I'm getting "Local configuration error" messages, such as:

@@ -3402,8 +3402,8 @@
</literallayout>

<para>The current version of the <ulink
- url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq">sendmail
- FAQ</ulink> is no longer maintained with the sendmail release.
+ url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq"><application>sendmail
+ FAQ</application></ulink> is no longer maintained with the <application>sendmail</application> release.
It is however regularly posted to <ulink
url="news:comp.mail.sendmail">comp.mail.sendmail</ulink>,
<ulink url="news:comp.mail.misc">comp.mail.misc</ulink>, <ulink
@@ -6217,11 +6217,11 @@
<qandaentry>
<question id="sendmail-alternative">
<para>What other mail-server software can I use instead of
- Sendmail?</para>
+ <application>sendmail</application>?</para>
</question>

<answer>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</ulink> is
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/"><application>Sendmail</application></ulink> is
the default mail-server software for FreeBSD, but you can
easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance,
an MTA installed from the ports).</para>
@@ -6237,7 +6237,7 @@
<para>Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many
different mail-servers to chose from is considered a
good thing; therefore try to avoid
- asking questions like <quote>Is Sendmail better than
+ asking questions like <quote>Is <application>sendmail</application> better than
Qmail?</quote> in the mailing lists. If you do feel like
asking, first check the mailing list archives. The
advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the
@@ -8528,12 +8528,12 @@

<qandaentry>
<question id="sendmail-port-587">
- <para>Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the
+ <para><application>sendmail</application> is listening on port 587 as well as the
standard port 25! What is going on?</para>
</question>

<answer>
- <para>Recent versions of Sendmail support a
+ <para>Recent versions of <application>sendmail</application> support a
mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is
not yet widely supported, but is growing in
popularity.</para>
@@ -9156,7 +9156,7 @@
<para>In the DNS case, you should try to determine what is
actually trying to resolve a host name. A lot of the
time, &man.sendmail.8; is the culprit. You should make
- sure that you tell sendmail not to do any DNS lookups in
+ sure that you tell <application>sendmail</application> not to do any DNS lookups in
its configuration file. See the section on <ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/smtp-dialup.html">using email with a
dialup connection</ulink> in the FreeBSD Handbook for
@@ -9167,7 +9167,7 @@

<programlisting>define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `d')dnl</programlisting>

- <para>This will make sendmail queue everything until the
+ <para>This will make <application>sendmail</application> queue everything until the
queue is run (usually, sendmail is invoked with
<option>-bd -q30m</option>, telling it to run the queue
every 30 minutes) or until a <command>sendmail
--- books.faq.patch.29.diff ends here ---

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