Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)
Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
> Scripsit Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>
>>>From http://gitmail.sourceforge.net/ :
>> This piece of software allows to send e-mails to any person
>> over the net with a fake email address, and also a fake name.
>
> Is this a feature, even? I should think all regular MUAs in Debian
> happily allow the user to put anything he wants in the From line --
> they had better, as a MUA running on a NATted box with no global FQDN
> of its own has no way of knowing _any_ guaranteed-to-work sender
> address.
>
> There does not appear to be anything one can do with this software
> that is not straightforwardly possible with an off-the-shelf MUA
> that can be configured to send to a smarthost rather than to a local
> MTA.
The text is diretly form the developer's page. I'll improve the
description, since there is nothing special on it.
The speciality is the small size + GUI to send mail. Useful for
low end harware (166Mhz / 64 M mem).
Jari
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