On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>wrote:
> Warning: I am not pulling punches in this review. Please understand > this is a critique of the patch, not a personal attack on anybody. > > Same here. I have a few, extremely minor comments below. > > - "provide an explicit path to this program; otherwise the standard", > > - "locations /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail will be tried."]) > > + "provide an explicit path to this program. If `--sendmail-command' > is", > > + "not present, $SENDMAIL is used; if both are not present, the > standard", > > + "locations /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are used. (Other", > > What was the rationale for the rewording above? > As long as it's technically correct, I think the rewording is nice because it gives a clear picture of the order of defaulting. > > > > + "If your machine has no working MTA (mail server), it may loose your", > > + "e-mails without telling you. In that case, take a look at msmtp and", > > + "the offline wrapper msmtp-runqueue.sh.", > > + "Example: `--sendmail-command=\"/usr/local/bin/msmtp-enqueue.sh -a me > %<\"'", > > + "(Without %<, the e-mail is not piped into your MTA's stdin.)"]) > I think Knuth[1] makes a pretty convincing argument for "email" instead of "e-mail": > A note on email versus e-mail > > Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but > the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people > used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and > ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus > it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. > Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! > The form ``email'' has been well established in England for several years, > so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. > (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the > Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different > reason.) > [1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html Jason
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