On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Stephen John Smoogensmooge@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James Hubbardjameshubbard@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christopher Belandbeland@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.