From 9b04f759f8be1daaa32f7cf82859f6fac3efb19e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gareth Rees Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:06:24 +0100 Subject: =?UTF-8?q?Clarify=20that=20the=20=5Fapplication=5F=20sends=20emai?= =?UTF-8?q?l=E2=80=A6?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit …to the authority --- docs/installing/email.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3