At 09:30 PM 8/3/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>Yesterday I sent in an idea about being able to set up
>>Email from DrakConf in the same manner as menudrake
>>sets up applications to all the different desktops.
>>(KDE, Gnome, BlackBox, etc)Also I thought about having
>>email setup a possible option during install similar
>>to how Windows sets everything up. I Sent this in
>>because I work with over 80 computers a day and know
>>that the first thing (Besides Internet) that most
>>people want set up is Email (In a corperate
>>environment). Having a script Like MenuDrake that sets
>>up all types of email programs as long as you install
>>them from rpmdrake would be ideal.
>
>I do not see the benefit of automatizing such easy tasks. Usually you have
>to setup your email account ONE time. It takes up about 10 minutes to set
>up all the applications by hand, and then it lasts for months. It is not
>repetitive, nor complicated. Thus, I do not understand your argument about
>the 80 computers. Please explain.
>
>Also, did you read my email about all the different email addresses that
>one single person have, depending on the context? I think this is a major
>problem.
>
>Gr�goire
1. Windows does not set everything up during install. What it does set-up
is only for outlook. It certainly does not setup other e-mail clients like
Netscape's, Pegasus, etc, and most other people's favourite, Eudora. So for
me, that windows feature is pretty much useless. For those 80 computers
you were talking about you still have to set them up individualy don't you?
For sure you can't have 80 workstations having the same e-mail addresses.
2. What you were asking for, while not impossible, is not very feasible, be
it in Linux or Windows. In windows, as mentioned above, not everyone uses
Outlook. Same thing with Linux. Of course it would be different if, say,
one Linux distro would favour just one e-mail client as its default (say
KMail with KDE or Balsa with Gnome). But then again, it would be pretty
much useless for other people who would prefer to use other mail clients.
cheers
