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Comment	> Being the Joe Average sysadmin whose dumbness and haste you're trying > to address, I still believe that having backends.php. renamed to > backends.php.dist is a viable solution. > > I understand that in this way it would not work "out of the box" with > imap server on localhost, but: > > - I have no installation with imap server on localhost (this > probably means I'm not really Joe Average) > > - [Doesn't work -> do something -> works] is an annoying fact of > life Joe average can understand and is somewhat used to. In this > specific case, having to tell the mailserver location to a webmail > system can be seen as unavoidable. > > - [Works -> months pass -> upgrade -> doesn't work/lose config] is > much more annoying and fosters the "Don't upgrade" school of thought, > with obvious security implications. > > My derailing in the last scenario was of course a mistake, but I > think my mistake was not uncommon. >
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