Ubuntu is under attack

[Derek Broughton]

Chanchao wrote:

> 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.

And the excellent email programs - and your ISPs - simply expect you to
attach to an SMTP server.  If you've configured your MTA _correctly_ that
could be "localhost", but it's just as easy to set it to your ISP's server,
so that's not what we're talking about.
> 
> 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.

If you can't make your email connect to your ISP's SMTP server, you're not
ready to configure your own.
-- 
derek