On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Michael Polak wrote:
>
> > Probably yes... but it will be task for e-mail component, I guess. Maybe I
> > will give up Arachne's internal POP3 client, and use just fetchmail
> > instead of it. And maybe the same for sendmail. Arachne's internal SMTP
> > and POP3 is usable, but far from perfect, and I don't feel any real need
> > for it in Linux enveroment... well, maybe better diagnostics on Arachne
> > status line. Maybe usage of fetchmail/sendmail will be optional, same as
> > arachne's external/smtp and external/pop3 in DOS...
>
> In my opinion, the smaller, the more efficient, the better. Maybe you
> could just have a simple user configured option on what mailer to use when
> mailing out ("mailto:"). It could default to "mail", but then user may set
> it to pine, mutt, arrow, whatever.
I think that most people will prefere graphical mail composer - to stay in
graphics mode when doing Internet things. My monitor requires cca 1-2
seconds to switch from text mode to graphics and back....
> I guess I didn't explain my idea. First check for text config under the
> user's own home (like ~/.arachne/config), but then if that doesn't exist
> then use the system-wide text config from /etc/arachne/config. (Or if the
> local home configs aren't available then copy from /etc/arachne/config to
> $HOME/arachne/config.)
Ok... but may I leave one more option between ~/.arachne/ and /etc/arachne
? Which would be $exepath/../share/arachne/config ? ;-) If you prefere
/etc, you can always delete this one...
> Of course, the software would never update/write to the system-wide
> /etc/arachne configuration files -- especially since some admins may make
> their /etc partitions read-only.
Yes, I am planning that config more as template for ~/.arachne/
structures. Maybe each time ~/.arachen/ is not found, some simple setup
screen will be displayed, like in GIMP.
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