[Gllug] Postfix -> SMTP

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tethys wrote:

> Ahhh, but what's intuitive to one person is downright confusing to
> another. Take, for example GIMP. I find its interface completely
> intuitive and easy to use. Yet my other third finds it difficult
> to the point of unusability. It all boils down to perspective.

Yes however I am largely convinced that very few people find any UI 
intuitive anyway and the vast majority have to be properly introduced 
(either via training or a friend helping them) to any computer UI.

> In this particular case, a smart host is somewhere that has sufficient
> intelligence to know how to deliver mail that the local "dumb" host
> doesn't. Pretty obvious, I'd say. You'd probably argue not because you're
> used to SMTP terminology. But someone who isn't wouldn't necessarily
> think the same way.

But "smart host" is a sendmailism so it suffers from exactly the same 
problem - indeed even worse as at least SMTP terminology is generic.

If we really are considering those who are not familiar with SMTP or 
sendmailisms then I guess we'd be using terms like 
"the-name-of-the-machine-you-send-email-out-from" ;)

Of course both sendmail and postfix configuration files are, by default, 
very verbose with comments to help admins to understand them. I guess 
RTFM.

Jason Clifford
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