Ubuntu is under attack

[Tim Frost]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:04 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 11:42:35 AM, you wrote:
> 
> >> If you install anything that generates email, then it is your
> >> responsibility to ensure that you have something that will process that
> >> mail.
> 
> MB> Where is this new imposition documented?  Why make a change which
> MB> so directly conflicts with the goal that Ubuntu "Just Work" out
> MB> of the box?
> 
> I can't help but sort of agree that things changed for the worse in
> Breezy..   Desktop users want to send email right.. Excellent email
> software is installed by default, right..  However it is no longer
> possible to send email, and the user is not alerted of this.
> 
that is not quite true.

I use evolution as my mail client, and have that configured to use pop-3
and SMTP to my ISP.

On my old PC, running Red Hat, I used fetchmail (manually!) to retrieve
messages from my ISP, and configured sendmail to use the ISP mail server
as smart host.

Today, using evolution, incoming mail is retrieved from the ISP POP-3
server, then filtered to the correct folder automatically.

And this message will be (have been, by the time you read it) sent
direct to the ISP mail server, using SMTP.

And evolution can also read the messages that cron (using postfix
configured for local-only mode) sends to me to remind me to fix the
dangling symlink that something created.

> It just didn't work for me either and gave up trying to use email.
> (Well I thought some day I'd get around to figure out how to install
> SMTP but so far I haven't had the time. For sure it would involve
> doing config file stuff and as a desktop user I just don't want to
> bother with that.


> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
> 

Tim