Re: Linux Mail Client
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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 4:52:34 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> There is no concept of "personalities". Click in the account you want to
>> use, click new message, it uses that account. The Bat! offers the choice of
>> changing which accout you use after opening the new message.
> Personality, account - same difference.
No. Personality is changing the "from" address and nothing else. The
sent-mail goes into the same place as all other personalities, the same
servers are used, etc, etc, etc.
A separate mail account means the sent-mail is separate from all other
accounts, different servers are used, in fact very little is shared between
accounts compared to pretty much everything being shared with personalities.
> No. The assumption is that the MUA isn't in the buisness of delivering
> mail, it's in the buisness of providing a user interface.
Which is why I say there is a difference between an MUA and a mail client
and try to always say mail client, not MUA.
> Working out how to get the mail to other users is punted to the transport
> agent so that you're not tied to your MUA's support for whatever routing
> policy decisons or protocols you care to implement.
Right. A client achieves this by handing it off to the specified SMTP
server for that account. How does that differ from what an MUA does except
that the MUA doesn't let you have that choice?
> it's not something that integrates well into an environment built up out
> of lots of small, clearly delimited programs.
Nevermind that those small, clearly delimited programs are the only ones
that act that way when ever other similar program isn't broken up?
> configuration. There's more methods for attacking problems like this
> than just a shared mail account.
I never said the mail account was shared. I said at some point it may be
handed off. Why would I want to wrap a BTS around that? When one person is
working on that role and later hands it off a BTS, like the MUA/MDA/MTA
division, is more than is needed to do the job and should not be used.
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