Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:13:43AM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:

> The other way is to assemble the talkback message, and display it to the
> user in a pop-up and ask them if it is OK to send to the GNUmed
> developers. You might want to give users the ability to edit the
> message, or to add their own comments.
That is what I would think the way to go but since I won't be
coding on it today or tomorrow didn't want to appear to limit
people's choices.

> Also, I don't think there is anything wrong with Karsten's idea of using
> SMTP to send the message - it is by far the simplest and most robust
> method, and libraries to assemble a message and to talk to an SMTP
> daeomn are part of the Python standard library.
That is why !

> I think all you need is a config option
> to set the address (and port) of an SMTP server through which talkback
> messages can be sent - that will usually be the user's ISP mail server,
> or a mail server or mail proxy running at the edge of their LAN.
Fully agree. Amounts to adding a text field and a few lines of
code to the existing talkback widget.

Karsten
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