On 09/16/2013 09:18 AM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2013-09-16 02:06:52, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Getting this to work properly probably also means handling with the >> situation where the SMTP server is not available, dies in the middle >> of transmission, etc. this is all a pain to do, and i don't actually >> expect or want monkeysign to recapitulate an MTA. But it would be >> really nice to offer at least the baseline of "if you have an outbound >> SMTP server, and it is online, and we can talk to it right now, we >> will send the mail through it". > > So there are commandline options to send mail through the SMTP server > already, the only thing missing is GUI-based configuration of those > settings. > > But if you start monkeyscan with -s smtp.example.com, it will deliver to > that SMTP server. It also supports TLS and authentication.
sweet, that's really great!
> The idea of having GUI-based configuration is in the TODO file, but not
> explicitely stated in a bug report here, so I guess I'll leave this open
> here - but basically the functionality is here, not just the preferences
> pane (which is what I assume you would like).
hm, if i'm going to wish for specific ponies, I'd like a few things:
* sure, i'd like the non-local-MTA to be selected in the preferences pane.
* i'd like it to not silently fail if it tries to use
/usr/sbin/sendmail and that path doesn't exist. (i don't consider
writing to stderr to be sufficiently noisy for a gui program) -- maybe
if it can't find sendmail, it could open the preferences pane and
encourage configuration of the settings
* i'd like it to use thunderbird's autoconf to pre-populate the mail
server settings if the user has no local MTA
Regards,
--dkg
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