Please find, for review, the debconf templates and packages descriptions for the mailagent source package.
This review will last from Wednesday, February 06, 2008 to Saturday, February 16, 2008.
Please send reviews as unified diffs (diff -u) against the original
files. Comments about your proposed changes will be appreciated.
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"[RFRn]" (n>=2) as a subject tag.
When we will reach a consensus, I send a "Last Chance For
Comments" mail with "[LCFC]" as a subject tag.
Finally, the reviewed templates will be sent to the package maintainer
as a bug report, and a mail will be sent to this list with "[BTS]" as
a subject tag.
Rationale:
--- ../mailagent.old/debian/templates.master 2008-01-18 06:23:01.849400408 +0100
+++ debian/templates.master 2008-02-02 07:44:45.703486717 +0100
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
Template: shared/news/organization
Type: string
Default: --none--
-_Description: Name of your organization:
- You don't seem to have an /etc/news/organization file. Usually that
- contains the name of your organization as you want it to appear on
- the Organization line of outgoing articles/mail/patches. Please
- supply the name of your organization as you want it to appear in
- those places. (It would be useful if this also specifies your
- location. Your city name is probably sufficient if well known.) For
- example: .
- University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople
+_Description: Organization name:
More neutral. This is not necessarily "my" organization
+ The /etc/news/organization file does not exist. That file contains
+ the name of the organization this server belongs to so that it
+ appears on the Organization line of outgoing articles, mail or patches.
Again, more unpersonnalization.
.
- Type in "--none--" if you do not want to specify one.
+ Please enter the name of the organization as you want it to appear in
+ those places. It is common practice to add a city name to the organization
+ name, for instance:
+ University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople
+ .
+ If you enter "--none--", no organization name will be setup.
Other changes are mostly splitting out in paragraphs for improved readability.
--- ../mailagent.old/debian/control 2008-01-18 06:23:01.837401460 +0100
+++ debian/control 2008-02-02 07:46:56.583485328 +0100
@@ -11,40 +11,34 @@
Package: mailagent
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
Architecture: any
-Description: An automatic mail-processing tool and filter.
- Mailagent allows you to process your mail automatically. This has
- far more functionality than procmail, and is easier to configure
- (providing, of course, that you grok perl). As a mail processing
- tool, this slices, it dices, it ...
- .
- Given a set of lex-like rules, you are able to file mails to specific
- folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), forward
- messages to a third person, pipe a message to a command or even post
- the message to a newsgroup.
+Description: automatic mail-processing tool and filter
drop leading article and capital letter
+ Mailagent processes mail automatically. It provides
+ ore functionality than procmail, and is generally considered to be
+ easier to configure with some Perl skills.
+ .
+ Given a set of lex-like rules, mails can be filed to specific
+ folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), messages
+ may be forwarded to a third person, piped to a command or posted
+ to newsgroups.
Be more factual about what the program does. Whether it allows "me" or
other people may vary.....
I use more formal writing (yeah, Manoj, I know....) without excess, though.
.
It is also possible to process messages containing some commands.
.
- You may also set up a vacation program, which will automatically
- answer your mail while you are not there, but more flexibly than the
+ Mailfilter can be used to setup a vacation program, which will automatically
+ answer mail automatically with more flexibly than the
Again, not only "your" mail, ie the local admin, but for all users of
the system, hence the more neutral wording
Unix command of the same name. You only need to supply a message to
be sent and the frequency at which this will occur. Some simple macro
- substitutions allow you to re-use some parts of the mail header into
- your vacation message, for a more personalized reply.
+ substitutions allow re-using some parts of the mail header into
+ vacation messages, for a more personalized reply.
.
- You may also set up a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
+ Mailfilter can also be used to setup a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
lower-level concerns like error recovery, logging or command parsing.
.
- The mailagent is not usually invoked manually but is rather called
- via the filter program, which is in turn invoked by sendmail. That
- means you must have sendmail/smail on your system to use this. You
- also must have perl to run the mailagent scripts.
- .
It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by
- implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded
+ implementing them in Perl and then having them automagically loaded
Proper capitalization of Perl
when used.
.
Please note that on Debian systems, mailagent can not lock /var/spool/mail
- directory mailboxes, and thus one must put a catch all rule saving all mail
+ directory mailboxes, and thus one must put a catch-all rule saving all mail
hyphen
in ones home directory. This is because Debian MDA policy requires them to
be setgid mail, and making anything as extensible as mailagent setgid
anything negates any benefit of having group permission protection.
--
Template: shared/news/organization Type: string Default: --none-- _Description: Organization name: The /etc/news/organization file does not exist. That file contains the name of the organization this server belongs to so that it appears on the Organization line of outgoing articles, mail or patches. . Please enter the name of the organization as you want it to appear in those places. It is common practice to add a city name to the organization name, for instance: University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople . If you enter "--none--", no organization name will be setup.
--- ../mailagent.old/debian/templates.master 2008-01-18 06:23:01.849400408 +0100
+++ debian/templates.master 2008-02-02 07:44:45.703486717 +0100
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
Template: shared/news/organization
Type: string
Default: --none--
-_Description: Name of your organization:
- You don't seem to have an /etc/news/organization file. Usually that
- contains the name of your organization as you want it to appear on
- the Organization line of outgoing articles/mail/patches. Please
- supply the name of your organization as you want it to appear in
- those places. (It would be useful if this also specifies your
- location. Your city name is probably sufficient if well known.) For
- example: .
- University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople
+_Description: Organization name:
+ The /etc/news/organization file does not exist. That file contains
+ the name of the organization this server belongs to so that it
+ appears on the Organization line of outgoing articles, mail or patches.
.
- Type in "--none--" if you do not want to specify one.
+ Please enter the name of the organization as you want it to appear in
+ those places. It is common practice to add a city name to the organization
+ name, for instance:
+ University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople
+ .
+ If you enter "--none--", no organization name will be setup.
--- ../mailagent.old/debian/control 2008-01-18 06:23:01.837401460 +0100
+++ debian/control 2008-02-02 07:46:56.583485328 +0100
@@ -11,40 +11,34 @@
Package: mailagent
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
Architecture: any
-Description: An automatic mail-processing tool and filter.
- Mailagent allows you to process your mail automatically. This has
- far more functionality than procmail, and is easier to configure
- (providing, of course, that you grok perl). As a mail processing
- tool, this slices, it dices, it ...
- .
- Given a set of lex-like rules, you are able to file mails to specific
- folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), forward
- messages to a third person, pipe a message to a command or even post
- the message to a newsgroup.
+Description: automatic mail-processing tool and filter
+ Mailagent processes mail automatically. It provides
+ ore functionality than procmail, and is generally considered to be
+ easier to configure with some Perl skills.
+ .
+ Given a set of lex-like rules, mails can be filed to specific
+ folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), messages
+ may be forwarded to a third person, piped to a command or posted
+ to newsgroups.
.
It is also possible to process messages containing some commands.
.
- You may also set up a vacation program, which will automatically
- answer your mail while you are not there, but more flexibly than the
+ Mailfilter can be used to setup a vacation program, which will automatically
+ answer mail automatically with more flexibly than the
Unix command of the same name. You only need to supply a message to
be sent and the frequency at which this will occur. Some simple macro
- substitutions allow you to re-use some parts of the mail header into
- your vacation message, for a more personalized reply.
+ substitutions allow re-using some parts of the mail header into
+ vacation messages, for a more personalized reply.
.
- You may also set up a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
+ Mailfilter can also be used to setup a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
lower-level concerns like error recovery, logging or command parsing.
.
- The mailagent is not usually invoked manually but is rather called
- via the filter program, which is in turn invoked by sendmail. That
- means you must have sendmail/smail on your system to use this. You
- also must have perl to run the mailagent scripts.
- .
It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by
- implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded
+ implementing them in Perl and then having them automagically loaded
when used.
.
Please note that on Debian systems, mailagent can not lock /var/spool/mail
- directory mailboxes, and thus one must put a catch all rule saving all mail
+ directory mailboxes, and thus one must put a catch-all rule saving all mail
in ones home directory. This is because Debian MDA policy requires them to
be setgid mail, and making anything as extensible as mailagent setgid
anything negates any benefit of having group permission protection.
Source: mailagent
XS-VCS-Arch: http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/grab/mailagent
XS-VCS-Browse: http://arch.debian.org/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi/srivasta@debian.org--lenny/mailagent?expand
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0
Build-Depends: groff-base, po-debconf, file, gettext
Package: mailagent
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
Architecture: any
Description: automatic mail-processing tool and filter
Mailagent processes mail automatically. It provides
ore functionality than procmail, and is generally considered to be
easier to configure with some Perl skills.
.
Given a set of lex-like rules, mails can be filed to specific
folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), messages
may be forwarded to a third person, piped to a command or posted
to newsgroups.
.
It is also possible to process messages containing some commands.
.
Mailfilter can be used to setup a vacation program, which will automatically
answer mail automatically with more flexibly than the
Unix command of the same name. You only need to supply a message to
be sent and the frequency at which this will occur. Some simple macro
substitutions allow re-using some parts of the mail header into
vacation messages, for a more personalized reply.
.
Mailfilter can also be used to setup a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
lower-level concerns like error recovery, logging or command parsing.
.
It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by
implementing them in Perl and then having them automagically loaded
when used.
.
Please note that on Debian systems, mailagent can not lock /var/spool/mail
directory mailboxes, and thus one must put a catch-all rule saving all mail
in ones home directory. This is because Debian MDA policy requires them to
be setgid mail, and making anything as extensible as mailagent setgid
anything negates any benefit of having group permission protection.
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