Re: Request system-config-mail

[Jon Roland <jon roland the-spa com>]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:20:28AM -0600, Jon Roland wrote:
> >  
> > > 1. Gives the user a choice of which email client to make the default: 
> > > Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, or Other (select).
> > >   
> > There's "gnome-default-applications-properties", a.k.a. "Preferred
> > Applications", which has a Mail Reader tab.
> KDE provides this functionality from their 'Control Center'

Yes, but only partially, and only from the user's viewpoint. A complete 
tool would support

a. Being executable from another program, such as anaconda.

b. Enabling a tie between MTA and client such that to switch the default 
MTA will also switch the default clients tied to it, and switching the 
default client will switch the default MTA associated with it.

c. Enabling global as well as per-user settings.

d. Keeping all the services like procmail, spamassassin, clamav, 
fetchmail, milter, etc. in sync with one another through all the changes 
of configuration of any component.

-- Jon

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