Bug 302979: Bring mail sending docs up to date

Patch by: Ville Skyttäville.skytta@iki.fi> and victory <bmo@rsz.jp>; r=colin

diff --git a/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml b/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
index 6afca0b9c36e33dc01eaf0f7eb04a24a63956fe3..79fb2baebd4d4b35de69bbfe8724e27b0ea245f7 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
+++ b/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <glossdiv>
     <title>0-9, high ascii</title>
 
-    <glossentry>
+    <glossentry id="gloss-htaccess">
       <glossterm>.htaccess</glossterm>
 
       <glossdef>
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@
     </glossentry>
 
     <glossentry id="gloss-cpan">
-      <glossterm>
-        <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
-      </glossterm>
+      <glossterm>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</glossterm>
+      <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
 
+      <!-- TODO: Rewrite def for CPAN -->
       <glossdef>
         <para>
         <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
@@ -170,12 +170,32 @@
         particular task.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
+
+    <glossentry id="gloss-contrib">
+      <glossterm><filename class="directory">contrib</filename></glossterm>
+
+      <glossdef>
+        <para>The <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory is
+        a location to put scripts that have been contributed to Bugzilla but
+        are not a part of the official distribution. These scripts are written
+        by third parties and may be in languages other than perl. For those
+        that are in perl, there may be additional modules or other requirements
+        than those of the offical distribution.
+        <note>
+          <para>Scripts in the <filename class="directory">contrib</filename>
+          directory are not offically supported by the Bugzilla team and may
+          break in between versions.
+          </para>
+        </note>
+        </para>
+      </glossdef>
+    </glossentry>
   </glossdiv>
 
   <glossdiv id="gloss-d">
     <title>D</title>
 
-    <glossentry>
+    <glossentry id="gloss-daemon">
       <glossterm>daemon</glossterm>
 
       <glossdef>
@@ -188,6 +208,23 @@
         a web server, are generally run as daemons.</para>
       </glossdef>
     </glossentry>
+    
+    <glossentry id="gloss-dos">
+      <glossterm>DOS Attack</glossterm>
+      
+      <glossdef>
+        <para>A DOS, or Denial of Service attack, is when a user attempts to
+        deny access to a web server by repeatadly accessing a page or sending
+        malformed requests to a webserver. This can be effectively prevented
+        by using <filename>mod_throttle</filename> as described in
+        <xref linkend="security-webserver-mod-throttle"/>. A D-DOS, or
+        Distributed Denial of Service attack, is when these requests come
+        from multiple sources at the same time. Unfortunately, these are much
+        more difficult to defend against.
+        </para>
+      </glossdef>
+    </glossentry>
+    
   </glossdiv>
 
   <glossdiv id="gloss-g">
@@ -232,10 +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>
@@ -283,6 +321,16 @@
   <glossdiv id="gloss-p">
     <title>P</title>
 
+    <glossentry id="gloss-ppm">
+      <glossterm>Perl Package Manager</glossterm>
+      <acronym>PPM</acronym>
+
+      <glossdef>
+        <para><ulink url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/"/>
+        </para>
+      </glossdef>
+    </glossentry>
+
     <glossentry>
       <glossterm id="gloss-product">Product</glossterm>
 
@@ -363,6 +411,19 @@
   <glossdiv id="gloss-s">
     <title>S</title>
 
+    <glossentry id="gloss-service">
+      <glossterm>Service</glossterm>
+      
+      <glossdef>
+        <para>In Windows NT environment, a boot-time background application
+        is refered to as a service. These are generally managed through the
+        control pannel while logged in as an account with
+        <quote>Administrator</quote> level capabilities. For more
+        information, consult your Windows manual or the MSKB.
+        </para>
+      </glossdef>
+    </glossentry>
+
     <glossentry>
       <glossterm>
         <acronym>SGML</acronym>
@@ -490,4 +551,3 @@ sgml-shorttag:t
 sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
 End:
 -->
-