On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:27:12AM -0400, Richard G. Houser wrote: > POP may not support folders, but the local machine would most certainly > do so. As a mail client is on the downstream end, POP shouldn't be a > concern. I do think it might be worthwhile to include a most basic > fetchmail configuration GUI and an extremely basic procmail filter tool > (similar to a simple match version of what mozilla-mail supports). > > Also, I've yet to check where the defaults in cooker are presently, but > last I could recall not all of the shipped mail clients were defaulting > to the same mail directories (I had to change the pinerc in 8.2 to sync > up with some other clients defaulting to ~/Mail instead of ~/mail -- not > sure, but think it was kmail).
Fact is that most users don't get their email that way. And most clients (apparently kmail does) doesn't support filtering stuff though extrnal programs. Most of the graphical (read that newbie friendly) clients check directly via POP or IMAP. Most users don't know how to setup fetchmail, procmail, et al. My mail has a rather convulted setup that makes it end up on the local mail folders. But the fact is that most newbies just don't understand such things. They just want to pop their mailservers into the client and go... Finally, I don't know about you but most of my users don't use Linux to read thier emails. And almost none of them have access to the server any other way than POP. Automatically putting things in folders is a "bad idea" because you don't know if the local machine is the final destination or if the user picks it up to read by POP. There is no way to know that for sure... It comes down to this. At install time there is too little information to know what is going to happen with the email on the server. And even then not all users may do the same thing with it. In the end to get anything to achieve what the request is you'll have to make many assumptions about what the machine is used for. Considering that Mandrake doesn't attempt to have a "Server" install or a "Desktop" install there's really no way to know. And even then some people read their email on servers with clients like mutt or pine. And others download with POP. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
