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 Freebsd machine

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

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 Girl

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,

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: 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

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 guess it