On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Michael Polak wrote:
> Probably yes... but it will be task for e-mail component, I guess. Maybe I
> will give up Arachne's internal POP3 client, and use just fetchmail
> instead of it. And maybe the same for sendmail. Arachne's internal SMTP
> and POP3 is usable, but far from perfect, and I don't feel any real need
> for it in Linux enveroment... well, maybe better diagnostics on Arachne
> status line. Maybe usage of fetchmail/sendmail will be optional, same as
> arachne's external/smtp and external/pop3 in DOS...
In my opinion, the smaller, the more efficient, the better. Maybe you
could just have a simple user configured option on what mailer to use when
mailing out ("mailto:"). It could default to "mail", but then user may set
it to pine, mutt, arrow, whatever.
No need for any email retrieval (like POP3); let the user use his own
favorite client.
> > If files are real configuration files, maybe place these configs in
> > /etc/arachne/
>
> The main config file will be real text configuration file, but I would
> prefere not to touch /etc hierarchy. Arachne is end user application, not
> a system application, even if run by root. The default configuration file
> is intended to be read only, and users need chance to cusomtize Arachne
> almost totaly. This si why ~/.arachne seems to be good location for
> config... but again, I would also like to keep it as customizable as
> possible, so maybe search order for config file will be
I guess I didn't explain my idea. First check for text config under the
user's own home (like ~/.arachne/config), but then if that doesn't exist
then use the system-wide text config from /etc/arachne/config. (Or if the
local home configs aren't available then copy from /etc/arachne/config to
$HOME/arachne/config.)
Of course, the software would never update/write to the system-wide
/etc/arachne configuration files -- especially since some admins may make
their /etc partitions read-only.
I look forward to testing your software...
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net
http://bsd.reedmedia.net
