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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-08-14 11:06:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-14 14:16:32 +0100 |
| commit | 9b04f759f8be1daaa32f7cf82859f6fac3efb19e (patch) | |
| tree | fad606dc2b749870db618e64962737774c38cee9 /docs/installing/email.md | |
| parent | 15655be230c134224ea46c7dbb753ff9631b0467 (diff) | |
Clarify that the _application_ sends email…
…to the authority
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/email.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index 06c93791a..fe0ddeae6 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ title: Installing MTA ### Request mail -When someone makes a Freedom of Information request to an authority in -Alaveteli, an email containing the request is sent to the authority. The -email's `reply-to` address is a special one so that any replies to it +When someone makes a Freedom of Information request to an authority through +Alaveteli, the application sends an email containing the request to the authority. + +The email's `reply-to` address is a special one so that any replies to it can be automatically directed back to Alaveteli, and so that Alaveteli can tell which request the reply needs to be shown with. This requires some configuration of the MTA on the server that is running Alaveteli, |