Hekko Nick,

On 11/29/2014 05:50 PM, Nicholas Boel -> Kees van Eeten wrote:

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

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

Actually I have no opinion on how GUI based mailers should work. The last one I
used was before the turn of the century. The Fido nodes I
operate and the ones I experiment with, all run on headless boxes and
are maintained remotely. If I want to see what happens, I open a ssh
connect in a terminal and run a tail -f on the logfile.

And as for Bjorn's comments, I just installed two of his favoured
programms, crashmail and jamnntpd. Both complain a non existing directories and
I am glad they did. Otherwise a completely alien
directory structure would have been crated at the first try.


   Kees

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