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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 18:51:28
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- Jonathan Rhys Evans (jon@nutz.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : The real reason why I'm pissed off is because soo much
- : reliance is given upon environment variables and a UU config for so many
- : programs.
-
- The UUCP reliance is arguably unnecessary (it's historical, in fact), but can
- you think of a better way of making settings available to _several_ programs
- at once than by using environment variables? With a single, integrated program
- (like THOR) it makes sense to encapsulate all the settings in one file, and
- use a prefs editor, but if you have a big bunch of separate applications for
- different tasks (UUCP, NNTP, POP, SMTP etc.), the cleanest way is to define
- global environment variables which are simple and accessible to all programs.
- People are scared off by setting them all up, though.
-
- Perhaps things would be easier if someone created a nice preferences editor
- for all these variables. SYS:Prefs/Internet anybody? ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-