Hello Nicholas,

On Saturday November 29 2014 10:50, you wrote to Kees van Eeten:

 KE>> not blindly follow the definitions that are in de sample file. It
 KE>> also protects you against typo's.

 NB> So is there a fine line drawn between all of the GUI based mailers
 NB> that pop up a window saying "Directory does not exist. Would you like
 NB> to create?" and the daemon mailers that make it more painful to exit
 NB> out of your config file without saving changes in order to add a
 NB> directory before you can successfully save the changes?

I am with Kees. Ever so often a missing directpry is just a typo and
automatically creating it just creates a mess without curing the problem.

 NB> I guess I don't see much of a difference. Sure it's a good thing that
 NB> it tells you the directory doesn't exist and that it won't do
 NB> anything. But the "option" I also mentioned could be toggleable for
 NB> the administrator. *shrug*

Programs designed to run as demons in the background had better not ask and
wait for operator confirmation. That cure may be worse than the disease.


Cheers, Michiel

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