Bug#394651: exim4: Minor suspected typos in Debconf templates

[Christian Perrier]

tags 394651 pending
thanks

Quoting Jens Seidel (jensseidel at users.sf.net):
> Package: exim4
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during proofread of the German translation update I recognised a few
> suspected minor errors in the debconf template:

Really late. It is like two full weeks that I'm nagging translators
to update their translations and suggested changes come at the very
end of this. So, I'll only make the changes that do not require
translation updates.

> 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian
> needs to be
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz
> (already fixed?)


already fixed


> 
> "For example, if a mail address on the local host is foo at domain.example, then ":
> "example" is according to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt a reserved
> domain. Maybe you should add a comment for translators that it might be
> a good idea not to translate it.
> 
> Isn't mails the ordinary plural of mail? I miss this "s" multiple times,
> e.g. in
> "The option to hide the local mail name in outgoing mailS was enabled. It is "

Here, this could be considered a "generic" plural to mean "the
outgoing mail (flow)" or so.

> "therefore necessary to specify the domain name this system should use for "
> "the domain part of local users' the sender addresses."
> 
> s/the sender/sender/

Yes, fixed

> 
> Also:
> "If this value is left empty, such mailS will be saved"

Also a generic plural meaning "the mail" in general.

> 
> The following sentence is hard to understand. Just set one or two commas and
> you will get completely different meanings (I don't know how to improve it):
>  
> "If this system does only receive e-mail directly from local services like "
> "fetchmail or your e-mail program (MUA) talking to localhost (and not from "
> "other hosts), it is adviseable to prohibit external connections to the local "
> "Exim. This can be accomplished by entering 127.0.0.1 here. This will disable "
> "listening on public network interfaces."
> 
> So I thought for example first, that s/from/to/ is missing in the second line.

No. The sentence is awkward but correct. It means "if the system does
only receive from foo or bar (and not from other hosts).

I prefer not changing it.


> The usage of e-mail instead of mail is also inconsistent with other strings.

Fixed.


> 
> "In normal mode of operation Exim does DNS lookups at startup, and when "
> "receiving or delivering messages. This is for logging purposes and allows "
> "keeping down the number of hard-coded values in the configuration."
> 
> values refers to IP values in /etc/hosts, right? If so, please mention this.


I guess not necessarily. I would say "lower the number of hardcoded
anything". So, no change, IMHO.



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