From 9afc0bd0d3145367a287d2afc1dadbec8047a96e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Adam D. Barratt" Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:39:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] html/forward.wml: stop referring to features as new "A decade ago" might be new in project-time, but the features described are fairly well-established by now Signed-off-by: Adam D. Barratt --- html/forward.wml | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/html/forward.wml b/html/forward.wml index 5103286..5fc2e85 100644 --- a/html/forward.wml +++ b/html/forward.wml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

-Emails to @debian.org addresses now go through an LDAP distributed email system. +Emails to @debian.org addresses go through an LDAP distributed email system. This system uses the forwarding field in the LDAP directory to route mail without passing it through a user's .forward file on a single host. Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redundancy. @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ foo@debian.org

procmail

If you use procmail for your main mailbox, PLEASE, erase your .forward -file and put a .procmailrc in its place instead. This feature has been -supported on debian.org machines for a good while now, and will continue to be -supported. .procmailrc files won't be synchronised to all hosts in -the LDAP directory. +file and put a .procmailrc in its place instead. +.procmailrc files will not be synchronised to all hosts in +the LDAP directory, so you will need to make sure the file exists on any +relevant hosts yourself.

The correct way to invoke procmail for extension addresses is "|/usr/bin/procmail [options]" -- 2.20.1