Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> Except, this is _doubling_ a question that was already asked somewhere else, >> ie, a bug. The UNIX way of configuring the mail is setting up a binary that >> knows how to deliver it as "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; it doesn't matter whether >> that binary will do the work itself, run ssh -T foo sendmail, or toss the >> mail to a smarthost. The Debian way of configuring stuff is asking the >> admin the relevant questions only once, and keeping the config in a shared >> place. > You're free to file a bug against every "Provides: mail-reader" app. Serious bugs should certainly be filed against any MUA in Debian whose default configuration is not to use /usr/sbin/sendmail for outgoing mail. I don't know of any such packages in Debian; do you? Personally I use mutt, which has never had the audacity to ask me for external SMTP or IMAP addresses. I have no doubt that it would gladly _accept_ such a specification if I needed to and cared to look up how to configure it, but the _default_ configuration is to use the _default_ mail transport mechanism in Debian, which is how it should be. -- Henning Makholm "Punctuation, is? fun!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
