Hi, thank you for your contributions! On Tue, 7 May 2013 18:10:51 +0600 Michael wrote: > I would like to tell you about some bugs I've recently encountered, along > with ideas of possible enhancement. > > The NetBSD Guide, 27.1.1 Configuration of generic mapping > smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic > The variable does not exist anymore. After a long time spent searching the > web, I found out it has been renamed to "sender_canonical_maps", and either > it's not mentioned in the manpages, or I simply overlooked it. `apropos sender_canonical_maps` turns out three results: postconf(5), canonical(5) and cleanup(8). > It would be nice to see some more examples, like this one, that allows the > use of gmail, who require authentication and encryption: smtp_use_tls = yes > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587 > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > smtp_sasl_security_options = > sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic > message_size_limit = 20480000 > The contents of sasl_passwd are: > # destination credentials > [smtp.gmail.com]:587 mike.d.ft402:p4$$W0rD > # [mail.isp.example]:submission username:password > It and sasl_passwd.db must have proper mode (640?) so that random people > can not see their contents. > > The "message_size_limit" variable is very useful on its own, for emails > nowadays may contain large attachments, and might fail to be delivered > locally. If you run fetchmail from cron, that might give an illusion of > having no incoming mail. > > Speaking of cron, it would be nice to mention it in "27.2 fetchmail", for > this saves the trouble of checking mail manually once in a while. > > Some minor typos I've found elsewhere: > The NetBSD Guide > 13.10 Using a CD-R writer with data CDs > s/an pre-existing/a pre-existing/ > 27.1.1 Configuration of generic mapping > s/need change/need to change I committed these two to the wiki guide. > The Pkgsrc Guide > 4.2.2. Fetching distfiles > s/holding/are holding/ > 9.15. Why do some packages ignore my CFLAGS? > s/so bad code/code so badly/ > > I was not sure where to mail about this, so I decided to put it with the > rest: The message of "cdrtools -atip" > s/Unformated/Unformatted I'm not sure about all the changes. Could you please define where they should be entered? You can also see the new guide here: http://wiki.netbsd.org/guide/index/ There, you can also directly look at the sources and provide direct patches, if you want to. This makes implementation much easier. Regards, Julian
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