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authormozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>2005-12-30 23:34:39 +0000
committermozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>2005-12-30 23:34:39 +0000
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Bug 302979: Bring mail sending docs up to date
Patch by: Ville Skyttäville.skytta@iki.fi> and victory <bmo@rsz.jp>; r=colin
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/faq.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/glossary.xml9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/xml/faq.xml b/docs/xml/faq.xml
index e2cfa980a..816508839 100644
--- a/docs/xml/faq.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/faq.xml
@@ -896,6 +896,8 @@ password=mypassword
<answer>
<para>
To disable email, set the
+ <option>mail_delivery_method</option> parameter to
+ <literal>none</literal> (2.20 and later), or
<programlisting>$enableSendMail</programlisting> parameter to '0'
in either <filename>BugMail.pm</filename> (2.18 and later) or
<filename>processmail</filename> (up to 2.16.x).
diff --git a/docs/xml/glossary.xml b/docs/xml/glossary.xml
index 08ad45524..79fb2baeb 100644
--- a/docs/xml/glossary.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/glossary.xml
@@ -269,10 +269,11 @@
<glossdef>
<para>A Message Transport Agent is used to control the flow of email
- on a system. Many unix based systems use
- <ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org">sendmail</ulink> which is what
- Bugzilla expects to find by default at <filename>/usr/sbin/sendmail</filename>.
- Many other MTA's will work, but they all require that the
+ on a system. The <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/MailTools/Mail/Mailer.pm">Mail::Mailer</ulink>
+ Perl module, which Bugzilla uses to send email, can be configured to
+ use many different underlying implementations for actually sending the
+ mail using the <option>mail_delivery_method</option> parameter.
+ Implementations other than <literal>sendmail</literal> require that the
<option>sendmailnow</option> param be set to <literal>on</literal>.
</para>
</glossdef>