Gunther Furtado wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how the "Send by Email..." option on the file menu works but I could not find out any hints.

If you could point me out to some information.

I am using GIMP 2.6 in a Debian testing/unstable system.

Could you explain more what you encounter? To me, with exactly the same configuration, it works without problem.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:43:43 -0300 Gunther Furtado wrote:

terça, 14 de julho de 2009,
"Olivier Lecarme" escreveu:

Gunther Furtado wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how the "Send by Email..." option on the file menu works but I could not find out any hints.

If you could point me out to some information.

I am using GIMP 2.6 in a Debian testing/unstable system.

Could you explain more what you encounter? ...

When I try to send any open image a dialog window asking about recipient, sender, subject and message text is open. I answer those questions and click "Send". Another window appears asking questions about image conversion. I answer those questions and click "save". Then, nothing else happens! No mail is sent. No message appears if I run GIMP on command line. Didn't try gimp-dbg yet, should I?

... To me, with exactly the same
configuration, it works without problem.

I am using kde and my exim4 configuration is for local mail only.

What app do you use for mail from the internet ? Is it your default mailer ?

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how the "Send by Email..." option on the file menu works but I could not find out any hints.

If you could point me out to some information.

I am using GIMP 2.6 in a Debian testing/unstable system.

This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In).

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote:
This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In).

On the lighter side, did anyone consider that if it was instead named the GIMP Realy Useless Mail Plug-In it would be GRUMPI?

Patrick

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:06 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote:

This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In).

On the lighter side, did anyone consider that if it was instead named the GIMP Realy Useless Mail Plug-In it would be GRUMPI?

Well, instead of doing that, someone could port the plug-in to use 'xdg-email'. That would make it somewhat useful again.

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how the "Send by Email..." option on the file menu works but I could not find out any hints.

If you could point me out to some information.

I am using GIMP 2.6 in a Debian testing/unstable system.

This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In).

Aren't most GNU/Linux distributions installing by default a mail transfer agent like exim or postfix? Debian at least does this, and then the plug-in works.

Maybe the solution would be to change the plug-in in order it calls the preferred mail user agent, for example evolution or Thunderbird? This would make it useful after all.

On 15/07/09 06:29, Olivier Lecarme wrote:

Maybe someone on the Debian list, can help him put a hack together.

Regards,

Frank

Aren't most GNU/Linux distributions installing by default a mail transfer agent like exim or postfix? Debian at least does this, and then the plug-in works.

Please consider that a mail server also has to be configured which is often a non-trivial thing that can't be expected from a normal desktop user.

Maybe the solution would be to change the plug-in in order it calls the preferred mail user agent, for example evolution or Thunderbird? This would make it useful after all.

As Sven already said, I think xdg-email would be the best solution. GIMP just would have to execute "xdg-email --attach "

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 07:29 +0200, Olivier Lecarme wrote:

Aren't most GNU/Linux distributions installing by default a mail transfer agent like exim or postfix? Debian at least does this, and then the plug-in works.

No, that is not sufficient to make the plug-in work. The MTA also needs to be set up correctly. Most users nowadays don't have access to an SMTP mail relay that can easily be used for a system-wide MTA.

Maybe the solution would be to change the plug-in in order it calls the preferred mail user agent, for example evolution or Thunderbird? This would make it useful after all.

That's what I suggested. xdg-email is a wrapper that calls the user's preferred mail user agent.

Sven

Richard H. wrote:

Aren't most GNU/Linux distributions installing by default a mail transfer agent like exim or postfix? Debian at least does this, and then the plug-in works.

Please consider that a mail server also has to be configured which is often a non-trivial thing that can't be expected from a normal desktop user.

Maybe the solution would be to change the plug-in in order it calls the preferred mail user agent, for example evolution or Thunderbird? This would make it useful after all.

As Sven already said, I think xdg-email would be the best solution. GIMP just would have to execute "xdg-email --attach "

Setting up exim4 isn't all that hard to do.

Run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config as root. Follow the instructions and set Exim up to use a smart host to send email. It doesn't have to listen on any port except 127.0.0.1. Set up the smart host as the smtp server for your isp--mail.example.com--and add your user name and password as follows to a single line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client : "mail.example.com:username:password" with url being your ISP's mail server and the username and password being your username and password for your ISP's mail server. Don't include the quotes as I used them only for delineation from the rest of the sentence.

Restart exim4, or edit /etc/exim4/passwd.client before running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, and the email function in Gimp will work as it should.

Restart