diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml
index ce34c8abd8..d082a1c270 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ postmaster@example.com          postmaster@noc.example.net
 	needs, and also gives you the opportunity to configure your
 	new software before getting it to take over from
 	<application>sendmail</application>.  When doing this, you
-	should be sure that installing the new software won't attempt
+	should be sure that installing the new software will not attempt
 	to overwrite system binaries such as
 	<filename>/usr/bin/sendmail</filename>.  Otherwise, your new
 	mail software has essentially been put into service before