http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2876
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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-10 17:00 -------
Too late to change that for 9.1
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With bug 1309 fixed, I was able to proceed to a prompt for an Internet Mail
Gateway. However, I don't use my ISP's smtp server, and want Postfix on my
machine to send mail directly to the target hosts. The wizard reacts to both an
empty field and the name "localhost" in the same way, saying that I have entered
an empty field and that it will accept it, but that I will not be able to send
mail outside my local network.
This isn't true. The rest of the configuration completed normally, and I'm
assuming that it is configured to do direct delivery, but the message ought to
be changed to accurately reflect what will happen as a result of giving an empty
field for the gateway server: that mail will be held on the user's machine until
it can be directly delivered to the target machines, and that if the user shuts
the system down before this can be accomplished then the mail will not be
delivered until the system is up again and the target is available (I mean, hey,
you've got a lot of space in the dialog box). You can point out that using your
ISP's smtp server is preferable because you can offload the mail to him and let
him worry about retrying delivery until the mail is accepted, but there are many
of us who travel with laptops and don't need the hassle of reconfiguring DNS and
SMTP for each ISP we use. I prefer to have my DNS as localhost with the root
servers (and SQUID) as backup, and my SMTP delivery server as localhost doing
direct delivery to the target hosts; those setting work anywhere, regardless of
which ISP I'm using.
