Re: Location chooser (was Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !])

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bastien Nocera">

> I tried nullmailer, I didn't even get it to actually open port 25. Exim
> can be configured very easily through debconf, and I could come up with
> an easy to use GUI that does the same thing.

I use nullmailer at home, configured via debconf.

> The user would need a proper MTA for 1) daemon mails 2) programs that
> don't support sending directly to smtp (Bug-buddy, and certainly a lot
> of other programs as well).

A real MTA is too big, and a bit of a pain for this. Say I go to the office,
and want to lodge a bug. I can't make port 25 connections outside the office
network because of the firewall, so I have to reconfigure this weird
system-wide email thingy... Weird!

What would be really cool is an addition to nullmailer or one of its cousins
so that it looked to ~/.nullmailrc or something for the information it
needs. Then, with a location-based, GNOME-wide SMTP configuration thingy (a
la OS X), nullmailer would send with the correct host as you change
locations.

User driven and minimal. :-)

- Jeff

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