From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050104 Fedora/1.7.5-2.1.2.kde Description of problem: We could use a utility, call it system-config-mail that would: 1. Gives the user a choice of which email client to make the default: Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, or Other (select). 2. Gives the user the choice of MTA to use with it: sendmail, exim4, postfix, qmail, other (select), remote (select). 3. Sets up one or more user accounts to use the MTA selected (could be more than one). 4. Gives the user the choice to set up spamassassin, clamav, fetchmail, milter, etc. 5. Sets up other things like newsgroup reading, listserv operations (mailman), etc. Start with a few options, and add to them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. On boot, or from shell. 2. 3. Additional info:
There is already system-switch-mail for switching the MTA. As of right now, I don't think there's currently a priority for this to be scheduled.
system-switch-mail is a small start in the right direction, but as the admin for several systems I see the need for a system-config-mail that does more of what takes too much labor now. Computers are supposed to be used to eliminate repetitive tasks, and setting up mail servers and connecting them to mail clients is a hole in the system-config toolset. Anyway, my vote is to make it a priority.
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This is being closed; at this point it will not appear unless someone steps up to write it.
I think probably since this request was filed, almost everyone who isn't able to configure this stuff in their sleep (or isn't interested in learning to do that) has switched to a Big Name Webmail Provider anyway.