From: mozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:33:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug 302979: Bring mail sending docs up to date
X-Git-Tag: bugzilla-2.20.1~34
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=704713a43453a40869736de14d3f369a385ed454;p=thirdparty%2Fbugzilla.git

Bug 302979: Bring mail sending docs up to date
Patch by: Ville Skyttäville.skytta@iki.fi> and victory <bmo@rsz.jp>; r=colin
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diff --git a/docs/xml/faq.xml b/docs/xml/faq.xml
index e2cfa980a8..816508839a 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 08ad45524d..79fb2baebd 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>