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Re: Minutes from release-team, 7/21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Sun Jul 26 18:06:04 2009
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Athena 9:
> We need an Athena 9 patch release. 'from' and 'mailquota' will be
> removed from the dotfiles on Athena 9 and replaced with text informing
> the users that they will no longer receive these messages at login.
> Pine and Evolution will be wrapped to inform Exchange users that they
> are unlikely to work, but we don't want to lock Exchange users out of
> the clients, because migrated users might have local data.
I have written a patch to add the Evolution wrapper. It will display
a Zenity warning dialog for Exchange users, with the following text:
Exchange accounts are unsupported in Evolution (and
Pine) on Athena 9 machines. When using the default
configuration in this version, Evolution will fail to
connect to the Exchange server. You can access
your Exchange account using a web browser on this
machine, at http://owa.mit.edu. Or, you can run
Evolution on a Debathena machine.
Select "OK" to continue anyway.
Select "Cancel" to exit without starting Evolution.
Also, under the guiding principle of minimizing changes to Athena 9, I
tend to agree with Andrew that we can live without touching the
dotfiles,
now that port 143 connections to imap.exchange are refused immediately.
Bob
