Sorry but I don't know what you mean. Please be more specific about the problem or request. If this is a feature request, change the severity field to `Enhancement'.

My interpretion of the initial comment is:
"The 'configure mailsytem now' question causes more harm than good."

I agree with that - most users will setup a internet connection, but the least will ever use postfix and fetchmail. They will use KMail/Thunderbird/Evolution instead. Therefore it's pointless or even bad to have a working fetchmail configuration. (I didn't test, but I can imagine that fetchmail will fetch the mail before the user can't fetch it with his graphical MUA.)

My suggestion: simply remove the "configure mailsystem now?" question from the YaST modules setting up the internet connection.
- beginners usually don't want to use fetchmail and postfix
- experts can start the YaST module for the mailsystem on theirself (or write
  the fetchmail/postfix configfiles with $EDITOR, but that's another story.)


Sidenotes:
- I let this in NEEDINFO - Detlef, please add a note here.
- the problem still exists in 10.1 beta9
- CC'ing Siegfried because I think this is a usability issue

Yes, Christian, you're right, that's it.

Reassigning to Martin as Enhancement. Maby we should just add a note, this sure makes sense for a server installation.

Some questions, I'm not an email expert:
1) When is it necessary to configure postfix or fetchmail during the installation after configuration of DSL/ISDN/MODEM? Which kind of user will need this?
2) Do we have any data, e.g. % of use of postfix or fetchmail?
3) Can we make a product specific installation workflow at this stage?

1) The homeuser normaly doesn't need a configuration of postfix/fetchmail because he use a MUA (KMail/Thunderbird etc)
2) don't know ;)
3) Yes, that's a good idea:
SUSE Linux *.* -> no configuration
SUSE Server Products-> configuration of fetchmail/postfix after setup internetconnection

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

move to later

Reopening and increasing severity. (Yes, I'm serious about the severity. This is really a big usability bug.)

FYI: this topic has caused a large discussion on opensuse-de this week:
    fetchmail daemon gestoppt; trotzdem werden Emails runtergeladen :-(
(see the list archives for all mails.)

Lots of people agree that the "do mail configuration now?" question causes more harm than good. They also agree that it is a pitfall for newbies who wonder why they receive no mails in KMail. Oh, and *nobody* said that this question is useful and/or a good idea.
I would call that a real-life usability study *g* - and it has a clear result.

Please remove the "do mail configuration now?" question from the DSL/ISDN/Modem configuration.

(BTW: My arguments in comment #2 and Detlef's comment #6, item 1) are still valid. However, I would even remove the question in SLES.)

I believe this is a valid issue but it needs a larger audience for discussing the correct way to handle it.
Adding a couple of people to CC.

I think we can remove it, it does not even make sense for Enterprise products.

Ok, so I will do it then

fixed in yast2-network-2.15.15

Thanks for your fast reaction and for fixing this! :-)

*** Bug 104127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***