[14554] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Housekeeping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Matthew Belmonte <belmonte@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Housekeeping
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Matthew Belmonte wrote:
> As long as there are people willing to support SIPB pine
This sounds like a good time for an informational message about
pine.
I should warn that the "people willing to support sipb pine" is me,
and my willingness is waning. I don't plan on deleting it, but
my goal is to not compile it any more.
For what it's worth, pine in IMAP mode feels exactly like pine in
MBOX mode. The only real difference is that your mail isn't on
local disk, so you need to use pine's built in search commands to
search your mail, instead of using Unix tools like grep.
(Sipb's pine pre-fetches mail from the kpop port of the mail
server, saves the mail to disk, and then reads that mail in MBOX
mode. The pre-fetching bit was an ugly but necessary hack before
the PO servers supported IMAP. Now that the PO servers support
IMAP, users are better off using a standard Pine release.
A person can test Athena (IMAP) pine without doing any damage to
their pine.sipb setup. Beware that the reverse is not true --
pine.sipb will download your IMAP Inbox into your AFS homedir.)
-Jacob
