On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:58:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [snip] > Except, this is _doubling_ a question that was already asked somewhere else, > ie, a bug. The UNIX way of configuring the mail is setting up a binary that > knows how to deliver it as "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; it doesn't matter whether > that binary will do the work itself, run ssh -T foo sendmail, or toss the > mail to a smarthost. The Debian way of configuring stuff is asking the > admin the relevant questions only once, and keeping the config in a shared > place. > > Having to configure every single program that happens to send out mail adds > more work to the user. You also are guaranteed that every such program will > ask the questions in a different way, which adds extra confusion.
You're free to file a bug against every "Provides: mail-reader" app. People (well, end-users), though, ever since Netscape 1.0 Composer have been trained to enter their ISP's POP and SMTP server addresses, and I don't think you're going to get the Evo, Sylpheed, T-bird, etc developers to change their code. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Carl Sagan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
