Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/20/2002 05:23:13
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:48:43PM +0200, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:45:43PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > 
> > If you want to do this, then please change sysinst to provide the choice, or
> > at a minimum document it in a prominent place.
> 
> With no entries in mailer.conf, mailwrapper prints the following.
> 
> sendmail: mailwrapper: no mapping in /etc/mailer.conf
> 
> I'd say that's fairly user-friendly.

I would thouroughly disagree!

"what is a mail wrapper?"

"what does mailer.conf do for me?"

"what is sendmail, exactly?" for that matter

I remember these questions from some time ago - _document_ it for the
clueless or leave it as a working system IMO. I would call a
non-local-delivering OS on install a broken one.

Some of us may hate sendmail - but hey - it works for that simple
purpose!

  C.
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