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Re: [RFR] templates://postfix/{templates}



> >  Template: postfix/kernel_version_warning
> >  Type: boolean
> > -_Description: Kernel is too old to support postfix
> > - Postfix uses features that are not found in kernels prior to 2.6.  If you
> > +_Description: Too old kernel. Install postfix anyway?
> > + Postfix uses features that are not found in kernels prior to 2.6. If you
> >   proceeed with the installation, Postfix will not run.
> 
> "Too X" can't be used attributively; better to make it something
> like "this/the running/your kernel is too old".

OK. That one is tricky because we have two ideas to give:
- the kernel is too old
- do we want to install anyway

...and we have to make it short (also because translators *will* have
hard times and they have to make it short too..:-))

I propose: "Install postfix despite a too old kernel?"

Not sure this is correct English but I count on you guys to correct it
the Oxford|Cambridge way.

> > +  Local delivery only:
> > +   The only delivered mail is the mail for local users.
> 
> (Whereas here "the" is correct, "the specific messages")
> 
> > +_Description: System mail name:
> > + The "mail name" is the domain name used to "qualify" mail addresses
> > + without a domain name.
> >   .
> > - This name will be used by other programs besides Postfix; it should be the
> > - single, full domain name (FQDN) from which mail will appear to originate.
> > + This name will also be used by other programs. It should be the
> > + single, full domain name (FQDN).
> > + .
> 
> This no longer quite conveys the point that it's what mailname(3)
> calls the _visible_ name of the system; "mydomain.org" rather than
> "mylan.local".

Hmmm, well, That's complicated to explain and I'm not sure such
explanation pretains to a debconf template.

> >  Template: postfix/mynetworks
> ...
> > - To use the postfix default (which is based on connected networks), enter
> > + To use the postfix default (which is based on the connected networks), enter
> >   an empty string.
> 
> Does this mean "the default (which is determined from the networks which
> are connected)"?  How does that work?

Well, it means that postfix default value for "mynetworks" uses all
existing IP connections.



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