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Re: Should we update the Pine and Evolution wrappers for Athena 9?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Mon Jul 13 12:26:37 2009

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On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Jonathan D Reed wrote:

> I know we're not supposed to release patch releases for Athena 9  
> anymore, but is it worth putting one out that updates the Pine and  
> Evolution wrappers to check for Exchange Hesiod information and say  
> "You cannot use Pine or Evolution on Athena 9.  Please find a  
> Debathena machine or visit http://owa.mit.edu"?

Ignoring for the moment the question of whether we should do such a  
patch
release, note that currently we do not have a wrapper for evolution in
Athena 9, so an update will involve more than a trivial script patch.

Bob


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