Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-11-25 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-10-28 01:43:19 +0100: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:07:08PM -0800, kosmos wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:36:48PM +0100, Simon Barner wrote: > > > > What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to > > > > a dedicated and highly-visible Freebs

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Simon Barner
> > Or just have sendmail config files for the most common cases, e.g. isps > > mail server as smart host (with and without asmtp), etc. > > That would be good idea too. But when you make world and run mergemaster, > is always the risk of the sendmail configurations getting wiped out. But > I gues

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread kosmos
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:43:19AM +0100, Simon Barner wrote: > [ Full quoted and added questions@ so that others can also profit. > > Please let me know if this bothers you, but since this is on-topic and > there are no private things in your message I suppose there should be > no problem. ] No

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread kosmos
Randy, Thanks for the info. I decided to stop using my MS mail client, and replaced sendmail on my unix box with ssmtp, which is a lot simpler. I think there are 3 configuration options to it. I use pop3 so I am also using fetchmail now. I used gtk-send-pr at the last place I worked, and alth

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:45:10 -0800 you wrote: > What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to > a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet? The stock answer is to tackle configuring sendmail so you can use the send-pr included with the system. Recen

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Simon Barner
[ Full quoted and added questions@ so that others can also profit. Please let me know if this bothers you, but since this is on-topic and there are no private things in your message I suppose there should be no problem. ] On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:07:08PM -0800, kosmos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Simon Barner
> What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to > a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet? You have to configure sendmail (or any other MTA of your choice) to use a proper mail server (e.g your ISP's) as a smarthost/mailrelay. Perhaps at least a re

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > How does one formally submit a ports bug report? Here is an in-depth explanation to your question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ (if you installed the docs package that this book is available in /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/) If

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread kosmos
What is the procedure to submit a new port when you don't have access to a dedicated and highly-visible Freebsd machine on the internet? If you try to send a PR from a regular-person connection (e.g. DSL or modem - with no verifiable hostname) sendmail , probably to protect itself from spam, rej

Re: Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread mpd
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:56:08AM -0800, Jason Dictos wrote: > How does one formally submit a ports bug report? > > -Jason > E-mail the maintainer, or use send-pr(1) mike -- ___ "NUTS TO YOU AND YOUR BROCCOLI POKEY!!" - Little

Bug in ports howto question

2003-10-27 Thread Jason Dictos
How does one formally submit a ports bug report? -Jason This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the cloc