Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:39, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
This is particularly a bad argument as most Linux distribution
installations do not include an MTA anymore (Ubuntu is substantially
more popular than Fedora, and not just on the desktop). There's enough
reason to believe that the what people "expect" from a Linux
distribution might be very different these days from what *you* expect
from it.
Anyway what people expect is a bad argument fullstop. Microsoft, Google
and Apple didn't grow their userbase by matching their users expectations.
They grew their userbase by exceeding those expectations. So what if in a
traditional windows 3.1 mindset smtp processing had not place on a
desktop? The fact is that mail is a major part of the internet experience
now, and anything that makes mail simpler on Fedora desktops will get us
more marketshare not less.
Just set up mail accounts at install/user creation time and configure our
tools to use the local smtpd server by default. That will make it a
"sending mail just works" distro-wide feature, instead of "we suck so much
at mail we've disabled mail even where it was blatantly useful"
misfeature.
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Nicolas Mailhot