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Re: po15 mail testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 19 17:47:59 2009
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:46:57 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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I vote in favor of po12 :-D
- Evan
William Cattey wrote:
> After some really good work by jdreed to inventory the testing and to
> summarize and describe exactly what the current situation is, and how
> it is best refined going forward, I visited Mark Silis and Garry
> Zacheiss yesterday.
>
> I told Mark:
>
> * that the testing of PO 15 was successful -- that having POXX.mit.edu
> stay the old way with POXX.mail.mit.edu to support GSSAPI and to work
> as PO15 is set up is just fine and dandy, even for old versions of
> Eudora.
>
> * that some people asked for all MIT PO servers to be made like PO15
> ASAP, but that the best next step was to make ONE production PO server
> to be like PO 15. He said, pick one, and I said, mention was made of
> PO 14, and he said that everybody he knows uses PO 12. So I left it
> up to him to pick either 12 or 14 and to make the change and let me know.
>
> I told Garry that the Hesiod setup for users migrated to Exchange
> looked incorrect. He said that that was a known and temporary
> situation. He said that as soon as he could check in with Mark to
> sanity check it, he'd fix the Hesiod information so that it would
> reflect a person's primary Email account, whether that be a PO server
> or exchange.mit.edu.
>
> Bottom line: The requests to take PO 15 and the Hesiod information to
> the next step have been made.
>
> I apologize for having taken so long to move this stuff forward. I
> wanted to make sure that the actions requested were the correct ones,
> and that our understanding of the situation was correct, and easily
> communicated with clarity.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>
>> What's the status of syncing the po15 split mit.edu/mail.mit.edu
>> config to the other PO servers? I've been sending a lot of mail
>> (including some that I care about) to po15 instead of po12, and it
>> works fine for me over Kerberos 5 from alpine.
>
