On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:42 +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote: > Hi Drew, > > I'm using the guessnet package to set the right cups server, but you > could also use it to set your smarthost. >
Arggh! Not another one! :) > A better solution may be to list all your smarthosts in exim. In most > cases, if the smarthost doesn't accept your mail, it will tell exim, and > exim can simply try the next listed smarthost. Ofcourse, this increases > the time it takes to get a message from your laptop to the right > smarthost somewhat (who knows, it may be one or two seconds...). > Oh, I didn't know exim could fall back like that. It might perhaps be a neater solution for me. > Also note that not all the packages you mention are for the same > purposes. Yes, I sense that. But it's unravelling all the subtle differences between them that's so frustrating. > > I don't know if Debian needs to be cleaned up, but some documentation > that covers the packages and their strengths and weaknesses would be > nice. > Yes, that would probably be fine. Maybe it could be added to the Laptop HOW-TO. Maybe there should be a laptop-task. It could Suggest: (not Depends:) "everything", simply to let users know what the options are, then have a readme or somesuch for explaining the differences. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
