diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
index b3688fde06..c6b6ecbae0 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ daily_submit_queuerun="NO"</programlisting>
       <para>The default <filename>/etc/mail/mailer.conf</filename>
 	looks like this:</para>
 
-      <programlisting its:translate="no">&dollar;FreeBSD&dollar;
+      <programlisting its:translate="no"># &dollar;FreeBSD&dollar;
 #
 # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
 #