Re: [cobalt-users] user default page shows username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, william ross wrote:

>
> isn't the whole point that cobalt users are not supposed to care, or
> even know, that they have a mailserver, that it has a name, or that
> they can choose what that name is? they just get email.

Using Cobalt's "Our customers don't know nuthin'" logic, you're correct.

>
> in my opinion, which is awaited with great excitement, anyone who
> wants to change the domain of their mailserver is not a cobalt user:
> just a person who bought a raq, for whatever reason.

Ah, a new class

> you can't have a
> helpful gui and complete freedom of action, and unless you're on
> rails, you're bound to run into the edge of the gui at exactly the
> wrong moment.

But, you should be able to have a helpful GUI that doesn't paint you into
a corner.

>
> put webmin on it, close port 81 and live happily in vi ever after.
> better subscribe to bugtraq, though...

What an alternative...I'm hoping someone, or a group of someones gets
disgusted enough with the present alternatives to develop another one...

I'd certainly consider laying out cash to have more realistic options.

Thom