svn commit: r325702 - in head: . share/man/man5 share/man/man7 usr.bin/mail

Konstantin Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 08:55:21 UTC 2017


On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:16:22AM -0800, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 11 November 2017 at 11:21, Rodney W. Grimes
> <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >> Author: eadler
> >> Date: Sat Nov 11 07:00:40 2017
> >> New Revision: 325702
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325702
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   mailaddr(7): wave goodbye
> >>
> >>   The information here is somewhere between ancient to obsolete.
> >
> > 20% of the information here is somewhat obsolete, 80% of it is
> > valid, can you please tell me what part of the following main
> > body of the page are either ancient or obsolete:
> 
> Yes, there was some technically correct information in the man page.
> If someone is new to mail addresses they are unlikely to be learning
> about from a man page.
> 
> If you're looking for information on the technical requirements for a
> domain or mail address, you'll be reading the RFC. If you're looking
> for "how to use my mail client" you'll be looking at that
> application's documentation.

Following your words, most of this content can be usefully moved into
mail(1).


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