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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index fe4a511c..2e7a55da 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr/index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/22 18:28:43 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/26 03:58:51 $ </table> <HR> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1> @@ -237,13 +237,13 @@ careful to preserve.<P> for the most common case can be much simpler and more robust.<P> <LI> - The multidrop handing does <EM>not</EM> rely on doing the equivalent of passing - the message to sendmail -oem -t. Instead, it explicitly mines members - of a specified set of local usernames out of the header.<P> + The multidrop handing does <EM>not</EM> rely on doing the equivalent of + passing the message to sendmail -oem -t. Instead, it explicitly mines + members of a specified set of local usernames out of the header.<P> <LI> - We do <EM>not</EM> attempt delivery to multidrop mailboxes in the presence of DNS - errors. Before each multidrop poll we probe DNS to see if we have a + We do <EM>not</EM> attempt delivery to multidrop mailboxes in the presence + of DNS errors. Before each multidrop poll we probe DNS to see if we have a nameserver handy. If not, the poll is skipped. If DNS crashes during a poll, the error return from the next nameserver lookup aborts message delivery and ends the poll. The daemon mode will then quietly spin until @@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ in a system's libc, but we can just include that source file if the day comes when we want to support IPv6 without the inet6-apps library. It just makes life easier.<P> +<H1>Internationalization</H1> + +Internationalization is handled using GNU gettext (see the file +ABOUT_NLS in the source distribution). This places some +minor constraints on the code.<P> + +Strings that must be subject to translation should be wrapped with _() +or N_() -- the former in functuib arguments, the latter in static +initializers and other non-function-argument contexts.<p> + +To test the support + <H1>Checklist for Adding Options</H1> Adding a control option is not complicated in principle, but there are @@ -516,7 +528,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/22 18:28:43 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/26 03:58:51 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |