new news.daily option: mailto=xxx

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Sat Aug 2 17:42:02 UTC 2008


Hi James,

>> The following patch adds a "mailto" option to news.daily.  If the
>> mailto option is supplied, and the "nomail" option is not used,
>> news.daily will mail its report to the address specified by the mailto
>> option, instead of to the NEWSMASTER address.
>
> I shall commit it as soon as I can.
>
> Well, it sounds easy to do but the fact is that I wish to convert
> the news.daily man page into POD (and meanwhile, checking whether
> everything in the man page is accurate).
> There are also other parts of INN's documentation to change because
> we say that mails are sent to "usenet".  We then have to say that there
> is an option for news.daily.  I have also just noticed that there is
> something wrong in INSTALL:  "By default, INN sends reports to the
> user C<usenet>.  This account isn't used for any other purposes.  You
> can change it with the B<--with-news-master> option to configure."
> This account is also used for complaints: in inn.conf if nothing
> is specified. The active.time file uses it, controlchan too...
>
> Therefore, there is work to do in order to improve the documentation.
> I shall do that this week-end or the following week.

Done.
CURRENT news.daily now has the "mailto" option.

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Julien ÉLIE

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