On 2012-08-05 20:43:21 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:24:23PM +0200, Rado Q wrote: > > > It's superfluous, for the overwhelming majority of users. > > > > If they were more "aware" they'd not be easy prey for phishing and > > the like or minor technical issues. > > Learning how to set up an SMTP client, let alone a full MTA, is not > going to save you from this,
Under Debian, there is almost nothing to set up the MTA. The user just has to answer a few questions, basically to choose whether he wants to send mail directly or use a smarthost (in which case he needs to give the hostname/address of the smarthost), and that's all. I don't see how a MUA with SMTP support could be easier to configure (possibly more powerful, but not easier). > nor will it actually help you in most cases you run into where your > outgoing e-mail breaks. More than likely, it's broken because your > ISP has an outage or changed something, and you're going to have to > call them to get them to fix it. By switching the MTA config to direct (e.g. by answering the same questions as above), the user won't need to call his ISP, in particular if this is at night or if the ISP's gateway is blacklisted (sometimes for a wrong reason). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
