docs/124148: [patch] Fix sendmail Tags in FAQ

Gabor PALI pgj at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 30 17:20:01 UTC 2008


>Number:         124148
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] Fix sendmail Tags in FAQ
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 30 17:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gabor PALI
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy at 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


>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.sgml	27 May 2008 23:51:07 -0000	1.827
+++ book.sgml	30 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 is no longer maintained with the sendmail release.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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