Mail configuration

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="James Gregory">

> And so it is revealed that I'm really not a sysadmin. I actually use
> evolution and set my SMTP server with the clicky-clicky interface. The
> point remains the same though -- the A record pointed to by 'mail' or
> 'smtp' is a sensible default as the mail relay.

It really isn't though, because it's guesswork, not a robust solution. It's
an unreliable default which will work or fail at different times, without
enough information available to the user to understand why.

So there are a couple of answers to this:

 * Don't worry about it for now, because a huge proportion of our users will
   just use the Evolution or Thunderbird smtp, not the system smtp. The kind
   of users who want special configurations will often have the knowledge to
   reconfigure postfix (manually, or with dpkg-reconfigure).

 * We could fix up something later to grok user configuration and send
   emails as appropriate, ie. /usr/sbin/sendmail talks to GConf for that
   user's configuration -> might be an interesting solution.

- Jeff

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