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authorEduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu>2020-01-15 21:41:39 -0700
committerEduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu>2020-01-15 21:41:39 -0700
commit06c6ab430b223f6923fe74a4b8d11f3e626848a8 (patch)
tree2b483acf3ec2da573992c20b766a480e22f4c45a /imap/docs
parent9822842646bc2b940d4b98a260ee4e3ac26fce57 (diff)
downloadalpine-06c6ab430b223f6923fe74a4b8d11f3e626848a8.tar.xz
* Fix a number of misspellings in the source code of Alpine. I hav only
fixed those that belong to the source code of Alpine and do not come from an external source. List contributed by Jens Schleusener.
Diffstat (limited to 'imap/docs')
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/FAQ.html16
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/RELNOTES8
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/bugs.txt2
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/calendar.txt8
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/commndmt.txt2
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/drivers.txt12
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/formats.txt6
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/imaprc.txt6
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/internal.txt20
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/locking.txt4
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/md5.txt2
-rw-r--r--imap/docs/mixfmt.txt4
12 files changed, 45 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/imap/docs/FAQ.html b/imap/docs/FAQ.html
index 27d42aa4..f2496b99 100644
--- a/imap/docs/FAQ.html
+++ b/imap/docs/FAQ.html
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
<ul>
<li><a href="#5.1">5.1 I see that the IMAP server allows access to
- arbitary files on the system, including /etc/passwd! How do I disable
+ arbitrary files on the system, including /etc/passwd! How do I disable
this?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5.2">5.2 I've heard that IMAP servers are insecure. Is
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@
<p>SSL is supported via undocumented Microsoft interfaces in Windows 9x
and NT4; and via standard interfaces in Windows 2000, Windows
- Millenium, and Windows XP.</p>
+ Millennium, and Windows XP.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@
make lnp EXTRAAUTHENTICATORS=gss
</pre>
- <p>To build with Kerberos V5 on Windows 9x, Windows Millenium, and NT4,
+ <p>To build with Kerberos V5 on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium, and NT4,
use the "makefile.ntk" file instead of "makefile.nt":</p>
<pre>
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ mtest.c:515: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used.
<hr>
<p><a name="5.1"><strong>5.1 I see that the IMAP server allows access to
- arbitary files on the system, including /etc/passwd! How do I disable
+ arbitrary files on the system, including /etc/passwd! How do I disable
this?</strong></a></p>
<dl>
@@ -2251,7 +2251,7 @@ for better performance.
<p>Coaxing software that uses autoconfig to build properly on platforms
which were not specifically considered by that software wastes an
inordinate amount of time. When (not if) autoconfig fails to do the
- right thing, the result is an inpenetrable morass to untangle in order
+ right thing, the result is an impenetrable morass to untangle in order
to find the problem and fix it.</p>
<p>The concept behind autoconfig is good, but the execution is flawed.
@@ -3162,7 +3162,7 @@ looking something like:
<pre>
dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz,ssss;ffffffffFFFF-UUUUUUUU
</pre>The only thing that is variable is the "ssss" field, it can be as many
-digits as needed. All other fields (inluding the "dd") are fixed width. So,
+digits as needed. All other fields (including the "dd") are fixed width. So,
the easiest thing to do is to look forward in the file for the next internal
header, and delete everything from the error point to that internal header.
@@ -3520,7 +3520,7 @@ his home directory.
<dl>
<dd>
- There are two common occurances of this problem:
+ There are two common occurrences of this problem:
<ul>
<li>You are running a system (e.g. certain versions of Linux) which
@@ -4147,7 +4147,7 @@ that the text part in a 334 response be a BASE64 encoded string; in other
words, it is a protocol syntax error.
<p>In the case of AUTH=PLAIN, RFC 4422 (page 7) requires that the
- encoded string have no data. In other words, the appropropiate
+ encoded string have no data. In other words, the appropriate
standards-compliant server response is "334" followed by a SPACE and a
CRLF.</p>
diff --git a/imap/docs/RELNOTES b/imap/docs/RELNOTES
index 80e17967..28069698 100644
--- a/imap/docs/RELNOTES
+++ b/imap/docs/RELNOTES
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ broken servers use the SSLv23 server method, and this flag works around that
problem. WARNING: use of this flag will cause TLS negotiation to fail with
a server which uses the proper TLSv1 server method. Additionally, there are
known security risks in SSLv2; so users should be suspicious if this switch
-suddenly becomes necesary.
+suddenly becomes necessary.
The silly mailbox flag combination /ssl/tls is now rejected as an invalid
remote specification. Previous versions tried to negotiate TLS over an SSL
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ no longer builds on those platforms.
Updated: 7 January 2003
-imap-2002b is a maintenace release, released concurrently with Pine 4.52,
+imap-2002b is a maintenance release, released concurrently with Pine 4.52,
and contains only bugfixes. Programs written for imap-2002 will build with
this version without modification.
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ you will be asked to confirm to continue the build.
ORDEREDSUBJECT threading has been changed in accordance with draft 12 of the
IMAP threading specification. Previously, each non-root message in an
-ORDEREDSUBJECT thread has been a child of the message immediately preceeding
+ORDEREDSUBJECT thread has been a child of the message immediately preceding
it in the thread. Draft 12 changes this so that the second message in the
thread is the child of the first (root) message, and all subsequent messages
are siblings of the first message. This is significant in MUAs which display
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ by the /ssl switch in the mailbox name.
With SSL connections, the server certificate is validated by the client code
on UNIX, and Windows 2000 unless /novalidate-cert is specified. Server
-certificates are currently is not validated on Windows 9x, Windows Millenium,
+certificates are currently is not validated on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium,
or Windows NT 4; this is an artifact of the operating system and not the port
(e.g. client code using the NT port will validate certificates if running on
Windows 2000). On UNIX, the server certificate must be signed by a trusted
diff --git a/imap/docs/bugs.txt b/imap/docs/bugs.txt
index 5f87b3ef..d8daa1a2 100644
--- a/imap/docs/bugs.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/bugs.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The following are known problems/deficiencies in the imap-2007 toolkit:
DNS and/or the server's host table. A workaround exists (see the
top-level Makefile for details) but is not recommended and can not
be used at all with Kerberos.
- . At the insistance of the security gurus, SSL certification validation
+ . At the insistence of the security gurus, SSL certification validation
is now on by default. This means that you must now use the new
/novalidate-cert switch if establishing an SSL connection to a server
with a self-signed certificate; i.e. if "imap.example.com" has a
diff --git a/imap/docs/calendar.txt b/imap/docs/calendar.txt
index c1009078..63aaa68b 100644
--- a/imap/docs/calendar.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/calendar.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Caesar).
Months in the Julian calendar were 30 or 31 days in length and
every fourth year was made a leap year (having 366 days) by adding a day
-to the end of the year. This leap year rule was not consistantly
+to the end of the year. This leap year rule was not consistently
applied until 8 CE. The year-ending month of February, never a popular
month, was presently shortened so that Julius Caesar and Emperor
Augustus could each have long months named after them.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ calendar. This suggestion was adopted over the next 500 years and
subsequently followed in the Gregorian calendar.
For the benefit of those who seek religious significance to the
-calendar millenium, note that year 1 is too late by at least 4 years.
+calendar millennium, note that year 1 is too late by at least 4 years.
Herod the Great, named in the Christian Bible as having all children in
Bethlehem put to death in an attempt to kill the infant Jesus, died in 4
BCE.
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ centuries yet.
There is code in c-client to support the modified Gregorian
calendar, although it is currently disabled. Sometime in the next
2000 years, someone will need to enable this code so that c-client is
-Y4K compiliant. Then, 18,000 years from now, someone will have to
+Y4K compliant. Then, 18,000 years from now, someone will have to
tear into c-client's code to fix the Y20K bug.
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ adjustments will be necessary at that time.
Hence my use of "or so" in predicting the years that the calendar
will fall behind. The actual point may be anywhere from decades (in the
-case of Y3.3K) to millenia (in the case of Y40K) off from these predictions.
+case of Y3.3K) to millennia (in the case of Y40K) off from these predictions.
MEANINGS OF DAY NAMES
diff --git a/imap/docs/commndmt.txt b/imap/docs/commndmt.txt
index 7fd9707b..ee387311 100644
--- a/imap/docs/commndmt.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/commndmt.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ they are such.
10. Thou shalt use the LIST "*" wildcard only with great care. If
thou doth not fully comprehend the danger of "*", thou shalt use only
-"%" and forget about the existance of "*".
+"%" and forget about the existence of "*".
Honor these commandments, and keep them holy in thy heart, so that thy
users shalt maximize their pleasure, and the server administrators
diff --git a/imap/docs/drivers.txt b/imap/docs/drivers.txt
index de91aa53..0d4c77c9 100644
--- a/imap/docs/drivers.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/drivers.txt
@@ -114,14 +114,14 @@ prefix of the mailbox name. On UNIX, the following rules apply:
Prefix Interpretation of Suffix
------ ------------------------
-/ [black box] preceeds a user name; "/foo/bar" means
+/ [black box] precedes a user name; "/foo/bar" means
"black box user foo's mailbox bar"
- [not black box] preceeds an absolute path name.
-~ [not black box] preceeds a user name; "~foo/bar" means
+ [not black box] precedes an absolute path name.
+~ [not black box] precedes a user name; "~foo/bar" means
"UNIX user foo's mailbox bar"
-#ftp/ preceeds UNIX user ftp's mailbox name
-#public/ preceeds UNIX user imappublic's mailbox name
-#shared/ preceeds UNIX user imapshared's mailbox name
+#ftp/ precedes UNIX user ftp's mailbox name
+#public/ precedes UNIX user imappublic's mailbox name
+#shared/ precedes UNIX user imapshared's mailbox name
All other names are interpreted in the context of the UNIX user's home
directory (not black box), the black box user's black box directory
diff --git a/imap/docs/formats.txt b/imap/docs/formats.txt
index 8dfb9dae..d1e3b353 100644
--- a/imap/docs/formats.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/formats.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
When a mailbox storage technology uses local files and
-directories directly, the file(s) and directories are layed out in a
+directories directly, the file(s) and directories are laid out in a
mailbox format.
I. Flat-File Formats
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Soapbox on File/Message Formats
too much effort into file/message formats, you are correct.
There's a general reason why file/message formats are a bad idea.
-Just about every filesystem in existance serializes file creation and
+Just about every filesystem in existence serializes file creation and
deletions because these manipulate the free space map. This turns out
to be an enormous problem when you start creating/deleting more than a
few messages per second; you spend all your time thrashing in the
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ So what does this all mean?
A database (such as used by Exchange) is really a much better
approach if you want to move away from flat files. mx and especially
-Cyrus take a tenative step in that direction; mx failed mostly because
+Cyrus take a tentative step in that direction; mx failed mostly because
it didn't go anywhere near far enough. Cyrus goes much further, and
scores remarkable benefits from doing so.
diff --git a/imap/docs/imaprc.txt b/imap/docs/imaprc.txt
index cda153a6..82c7daa2 100644
--- a/imap/docs/imaprc.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/imaprc.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ set keywords.
* config file whether or not there is any need for one. *
* *
* This information is subject to change without notice. Commands *
-* may be added, removed, or altered. The behavior of comamnds may *
+* may be added, removed, or altered. The behavior of commands may *
* change. Do not use any of this information without consulting me *
* first. c-client's defaults have been carefully chosen to be right *
* for general-purpose and most special-purpose configurations. If *
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ matter. Unrecognized commands are ignored.
30) set disable-automatic-shared-namespaces <number>
Never look up the "ftp", "imappublic", and "imapshared" users as
- posssible home directories for the #ftp, #public, and #shared
+ possible home directories for the #ftp, #public, and #shared
namespaces. On some systems (reportedly including AIX 4.3.3)
getpwnam() of an unknown user name is horrendously slow.
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ matter. Unrecognized commands are ignored.
By default, the servers (ipop[23]d and imapd) will do gethostbyaddr()
on the local and remote sockets so that imapd can identify itself
properly (this is important when the same CPU hosts multiple virtual
- hosts on different IP addresss) and also includes the client's name
+ hosts on different IP address) and also includes the client's name
when it writes to the syslog. There are also client gethostbyaddr()
calls, used primarily by authentication mechanisms.
diff --git a/imap/docs/internal.txt b/imap/docs/internal.txt
index 203688e8..98d66ab6 100644
--- a/imap/docs/internal.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/internal.txt
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ void INIT (STRING *s,STRINGDRIVER *d,void *data,unsigned long size);
data pointer to driver-dependent data, from which the
driver can determine string data
size size of the string
- This call initializes the string stucture.
+ This call initializes the string structure.
unsigned long SIZE (STRING *s);
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ char mail_string_next (STRING *s);
void mail_string_setpos (STRING *s,unsigned long i);
These three functions are the init, next, and setpos string
-structure access methods for the build-in mail_string string driver.
+structure access methods for the built-in mail_string string driver.
mail_string is a basic string driver for a char* string. See the
documentation below on "String Structures" for more information.
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ statement
#include "linkage.c"
which will include the "system standard driver linkage" defined when
c-client was built. By using linkage.c instead of explicit mail_link()
-calls, you are guaranteed that you will have a consistant linkage among
+calls, you are guaranteed that you will have a consistent linkage among
all software built on this system.
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ fetch an operational parameter and SET_xxx to set the parameter:
bit. Defaults to non-NIL, since this is usually bad news.
GET_LISTMAXLEVEL / SET_LISTMAXLEVEL
- The maximum depth of recusion that LIST will go on a *
+ The maximum depth of recursion that LIST will go on a *
wildcard. Defaults to 20.
GET_ANONYMOUSHOME / SET_ANONYMOUSHOME
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ long mail_rename (MAILSTREAM *stream,char *old,char *newname);
It returns T if successful, NIL if unsuccessful. If unsuccessful, an
error message is returned via the mm_log() callback.
- It is an error to reanme a mailbox that does not exist, or rename
+ It is an error to rename a mailbox that does not exist, or rename
a mailbox to a name that already exists. It is permitted to rename
INBOX; a new empty INBOX is created in its place.
@@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ unsigned int seen : 1; message read
unsigned int unseen : 1;
message not read
- The following auxillary structures are used by search programs:
+ The following auxiliary structures are used by search programs:
SEARCHHEADER: header line searching
char *line; header line field name
char *text; text header line
@@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ and end of the expunge to ensure synchronization. The status of the
expunge is passed to the application via the mm_log() facility.
Note that the decrementing of msgno's for subsequent messages
-happens immediately; for example, if three consequtive messages starting
+happens immediately; for example, if three consecutive messages starting
at msgno 5 are expunged, mm_expunged() will be called with a msgno of 5
three times.
@@ -2709,7 +2709,7 @@ possibly shown to the user.
ERROR An error event. This event should be displayed to
the user, or at least logged someplace. This is a
- serious error condition occured that aborted the
+ serious error condition occurred that aborted the
requested operation and possibly also aborted the mail
stream. This ranges from normal error conditions such
as "Can't open mailbox", "too many login failures, go
@@ -2793,7 +2793,7 @@ function has to output its own.
Driver interface
When writing a new driver for the c-client, you must provide a
-DRIVER stucture giving a dispatch vector between MAIL and the driver.
+DRIVER structure giving a dispatch vector between MAIL and the driver.
The DRIVER dispatch vector is described in mail.h.
char *name;
@@ -2974,7 +2974,7 @@ void mail_lock (MAILSTREAM *stream);
lock if the stream is already locked.
This is mainly used to catch errors due to a callback function
-(e.g. mm_exists) inadvertantly recursing back to the MAIL routines and
+(e.g. mm_exists) inadvertently recursing back to the MAIL routines and
establishing an infinite recursion. Normally, drivers will set the lock
prior to calling one of the callback functions above or, more likely, in
the beginning of the driver's non-reentrant "do operation" section. In the
diff --git a/imap/docs/locking.txt b/imap/docs/locking.txt
index 32ff6c66..eb165647 100644
--- a/imap/docs/locking.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/locking.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ writeable memory between such processes.
A means of communicating this is by use of a file with a mutually
agreed upon name. A binary semaphore can be passed by means of the
-existance or non-existance of that file, provided that there is an
+existence or non-existance of that file, provided that there is an
atomic means to create a file if and only if that file does not exist.
In C terms:
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ BEZERK AND MMDF
Locking in the traditional UNIX formats was largely dictated by
the status quo in other applications; however, additional protection
-is added against inadvertantly running multiple instances of a
+is added against inadvertently running multiple instances of a
c-client application on the same mail file.
(1) c-client attempts to create a .lock file (mail file name with
diff --git a/imap/docs/md5.txt b/imap/docs/md5.txt
index c43f1023..f589c9ca 100644
--- a/imap/docs/md5.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/md5.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ RFC 1939, the standard document for the POP3 protocol.
challenge; the client responds with an MD5 checksum of the challenge
plus the password; the server in compares the client's response with
its own calculated value of the checksum. If the client's response
-matches the server's calulated value, the client is authenticated.
+matches the server's calculated value, the client is authenticated.
Unlike plaintext passwords, this form of authentication is
believed to be secure against the session being monitored; "sniffing"
diff --git a/imap/docs/mixfmt.txt b/imap/docs/mixfmt.txt
index afe3f940..68d75836 100644
--- a/imap/docs/mixfmt.txt
+++ b/imap/docs/mixfmt.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ A file number is set to the current modseq when it is created. If a copy
or append causes the file to exceed the compiled-in file size limit, a new
file is started and the metadata is updated accordingly.
-Preceeding each message is per-message record with the following format:
+Preceding each message is per-message record with the following format:
Key Payload
--- -------
;; per-message record
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ Then the index and status files are closed.
Shared expunge presents a problem due to the requirements of the IMAP
protocol. You can't "burp" away a message until you are certain that
no sharers have a pointer to any longer. Consequently, for the nonce
-"burping" out expunged data be defered to an exclusive expunge as in
+"burping" out expunged data be deferred to an exclusive expunge as in
mbx format.
If shared burping is ever implemented, then care will be needed not to