On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Stephen John Smoogen<smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James
Hubbard<jameshubbard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christopher Beland<beland(a)alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be a good idea for desktop users to get some sort
>> of notification that they have local mail waiting to be read, even if
>> they don't have an email client running. Then firstboot would strongly
>> recommend sending mail locally, so it would work more reliably (at the
>> cost of not being co-mingled with all of your other email, though
>> hopefully it would only get sent if something was malfunctioning).
>
> How would you suggest that these users read this email? Should
> evolution be setup with the default local account? What if they never
> open evolution?
>
What if they never install Fedora? OMG What if they never turn on the
computer? [Ok I think I have covered hyperbole enough here]
Please there is only a limit to what people can assume the user will
or will not do. The issue is to make it easier for that user to know
whats going on.
From what I've seen, all of the current notifications provide the
user
with a way to act on them. Update/security notifications allow the
user to update the system or view. SELinux has something similar. If
there is to be a notification to the user about local email, a method
of displaying that email should be provided that is automatically
configured. It should open a list of messages and provide a way of
reading them. There should be consistency for the end user.
Cron should drop it's logs into a directory with a name like
~/cronlog, if it can't find a local mta. Any user using cron should
be competent enough to check the logs, configure the mta, or be able
to do a google search as to how to do those things.