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Index: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
===================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
<year>2016</year>
<year>2017</year>
<year>2018</year>
+ <year>2019</year>
<holder>The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -91,6 +92,13 @@
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><emphasis>SMTP Host</emphasis></entry>
+ <entry><literal><systemitem
+ class="fqdomainname">smtp.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>:587</literal>
+ (see also <xref linkend="smtp-setup"/>).</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry><emphasis><literal>src/</literal> Subversion
Root</emphasis></entry>
<entry><literal>svn+ssh://</literal><systemitem
@@ -2235,6 +2243,13 @@
without warning if space needs to be freed, so forward it
or save it elsewhere.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>If your e-mail system uses SPF with strict rules, you
+ should whitelist <systemitem
+ class="fqdomainname">mx2.FreeBSD.org</systemitem> from
+ SPF checks.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>Due to the severe load dealing with SPAM places on the
central mail servers that do the mailing list processing,
the front-end server does do some basic checks and will
@@ -2255,6 +2270,69 @@
lists. The subscriptions are derived from the access
rights.</para>
</note>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="smtp-setup">
+ <title>SMTP Access Setup</title>
+
+ <para>For those willing to send e-mail messages through the
+ FreeBSD.org infrastructure, follow the instructions
+ below:</para>
+
+ <procedure>
+ <step>
+ <para>Point your mail client at <literal><systemitem
+ class="fqdomainname">smtp.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>:587</literal>.</para>
+ </step>
+
+ <step>
+ <para>Enable STARTTLS.</para>
+ </step>
+
+ <step>
+ <para>Ensure your <literal>From:</literal> address is set
+ to
+ <literal><replaceable>yourusername</replaceable>@FreeBSD.org</literal>.</para>
+ </step>
+
+ <step>
+ <para>For authentication, you can use your &os; Kerberos
+ username and password (see <xref
+ linkend="kerberos-ldap"/>). The
+ <literal><replaceable>yourusername</replaceable>/mail</literal>
+ principal is preferred, as it is only valid for
+ authenticating to mail resources.</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Do not include <literal>@FreeBSD.org</literal>
+ when entering in your username.</para>
+ </note>
+ </step>
+ </procedure>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Additional notes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Will only accept mail from
+ <literal><replaceable>yourusername</replaceable>@FreeBSD.org</literal>.
+ If you are authenticated as one user, you are not
+ permitted to send mail from another.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A header will be appended with the SASL username:
+ (<literal>Authenticated sender:
+ <replaceable>username</replaceable></literal>).</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Host has various rate limits in place to cut down
+ on brute force attempts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </note>
+ </sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="mentors">
Index: head/share/xml/docbook50.dtd
===================================================================
--- head/share/xml/docbook50.dtd
+++ head/share/xml/docbook50.dtd
@@ -3429,7 +3429,7 @@
>
-<!ELEMENT literal (#PCDATA|inlinemediaobject|remark|superscript|subscript|xref|link|olink|anchor|biblioref|alt|annotation|indexterm|phrase|replaceable)*>
+<!ELEMENT literal (#PCDATA|inlinemediaobject|remark|superscript|subscript|systemitem|xref|link|olink|anchor|biblioref|alt|annotation|indexterm|phrase|replaceable)*>
<!ATTLIST literal
xmlns CDATA #FIXED "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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