On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <dean@cleancode.org> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License : Custom > Description : Send email from command line, either via MTA or > SMTP, with optional encryption > > email is a simple command-line program to send emails. It can be > configured to use either your sendmail installation or directly via > smtp. . Also, if gpg is installed, it can digitally sign and > encrypt outgoing emails. I understand that email is the name of the upstream client but I'd like to urge you to reconsider keeping this name while the program is in Debian. In fact, I'd like to urge to consider contacting the upstream author to have them change the name upstream as well. In addition to being totally unoriginal, the name is hopelessly generic and, as a result, quite confusing. It's unclear whether we are talking about email, the client, or email, the larger concept. This isn't the first time this has come up. You should review previous discussions on the subject[1] in the archives. On a related note, it makes reading the upstream homepage mind numbing. The page is peppered with link text like "Download Email", and "Home of Email" that are confusing at best. Does "Email Man Page" email the man page or is it the man page for email -- and it's about how to use email the client, not email in general right? If you want to email the authors, you click on one of the two links *without* the word "email" in the title. Regards, Mako [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200107/msg01845.html -- Benj. Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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