[7506] in SIPB bug reports
Re: fyi: pine4 soon coming to sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Mar 20 00:23:15 2000
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To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:18:16 EST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:23:10 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> Pine can quit itself if it recives no keystrokes for a (configurable)
> number of hours. I haven't turned this on, but am tempted to. Thoughts?
Absolutely not, it seems completely unacceptable to me. Interactive
applications should never time out like that, that's the province of
session management.
If you think otherwise, please state why.
> The automatic incorporation of new mail allows Athena users to
> have their mail transparently pulled from their POP server to
> their home directory when they start pine. This moves pine back
> into being a mail client that "just works" for novice users.
Finally! Yay! Yay! Yay!
How do you plan to transition the "pine-inc" script?
>The program is in the sipb locker now, under the name "pine4",
>for those who want to test it. If you've been using the new IMAP
>servers, BE AWARE that pine will contact the KPOP port of the
>server and pull all your mail into afs when you run pine.
Why is this contingent on use of the new PO servers?
--jhawk
