Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:04:00AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
| > And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally
| > configure smtp settings in the MUA. Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt
| > is a good thing.
|
| Yeah because entering "smtp.isp.com" is just so trying for most people.
It is if they have to dig up what the correct SMTP server is. Or if
they're on a laptop whose "correct" local SMTP server changes as a
function of time.
| And what if the local user wants to use a remote SMTP server for some reason?
They are welcome to configure ssmtp or exim to forward to a smarthost.
This has the additional advantage that there's only /one/ point where
the outgoing SMTP server needs to be specified, and if it changes later,
there is only one program that needs to be reconfigured.
Cameron.
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