[6744] in SIPB bug reports
Re: pmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Feb 25 10:17:07 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:16:49 -0500
To: tiuzzol@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[6742] in SIPB bug reports"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
it appears that pmail is trying to open a file called mbox.pop.
Is this a change?
Yes, this was an unintentional change. I fixed it. pmail should now
use ~/msgbox again.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Sal.
P.S. If anyone wants to know the cause of this bug: A while ago, I
did some hacking on pmail to make it more suitable for general release
on the 'net. I wrote a configure script, made the code more
Posix-ized, applied some tiny patches I found on the 'net, etc... And
I changed the name from ~/msgbox to ~/mbox.pop because the former just
sounds like a typo for ~/mbox, while the latter sounds like a second
mbox used for popmail, which is what it really is. Unfortunately, I
forgot to revert this change before installing it in the sipb locker.
I'm a bonehead. Sorry.
P.P.S. Now, pmail will no longer look for messages in ~/mbox.pop by
default, but over the last few days, it may have left messages there.
This is very very bad. I guess I will modify the pmail startup script
to check for ~/mbox.pop and say something useful if it exists...
