Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:58:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
[snip]
> Except, this is _doubling_ a question that was already asked somewhere else,
> ie, a bug. The UNIX way of configuring the mail is setting up a binary that
> knows how to deliver it as "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; it doesn't matter whether
> that binary will do the work itself, run ssh -T foo sendmail, or toss the
> mail to a smarthost. The Debian way of configuring stuff is asking the
> admin the relevant questions only once, and keeping the config in a shared
> place.
>
> Having to configure every single program that happens to send out mail adds
> more work to the user. You also are guaranteed that every such program will
> ask the questions in a different way, which adds extra confusion.
You're free to file a bug against every "Provides: mail-reader" app.
People (well, end-users), though, ever since Netscape 1.0 Composer
have been trained to enter their ISP's POP and SMTP server addresses,
and I don't think you're going to get the Evo, Sylpheed, T-bird,
etc developers to change their code.
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