[6230] in Release_7.7_team
Re: po15 mail testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Feb 26 15:38:08 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:37:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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[adding debathena to the CC so it's easier to find a record of this change
when we need to do it]
> I set up geofft-po15@mit.edu and have subscribed it to a few mailing lists
> I'm not on as myself. I can read my mail with alpine. (I've also made
> *.po15.csail.mit.edu CNAME to po15.mail.mit.edu so we can test how the
> subdomain works, and have been using geofft.po15.csail.mit.edu for my tests.)
> I haven't yet figured out what the right global config for mail server name
> is.
Anders and I figured out that setting {${USER}.po15.csail.mit.edu/imap}
works for us, so just replacing
{mit.edu/hesiod/imap}
with
{${ATHENA_USER}.mail.mit.edu/imap}
in the two places in /etc/pine.conf will address this issue. Anders says,
"everything that works in Alpine also seems to work in PINE."
There's the problem that debathena-standard / debathena-clients users,
like myself, don't have $ATHENA_USER set. It doesn't appear to support the
sh-like syntax of ${ATHENA_USER:-${USER}}. One workaround is to default
$ATHENA_USER to $USER in /etc/profile or something, even for -clients.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
