[7507] in SIPB bug reports
Re: fyi: pine4 soon coming to sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Mar 20 00:38:50 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:38:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If you think otherwise, please state why.
Cross-platform file locking in afs Does Not Work. It works fine
on a single machine protecting you agains other pine invocations
on that machine, but I can establish three simultaneous locks on
my inbox if I use three different machines.
I am tempted to time peoples pines out after 2 or 3 hours, to
give themselves less chance to hurt themselves, but have held off
so far because I dislike this "solution".
> How do you plan to transition the "pine-inc" script?
Time-triggered, progressively more obnoxious warning messages in
the script. (It still works, it's just that there's no reason to
use it any more.)
> >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?
The new PO servers are the first time that MIT has supported
having mail permanently stored in people's "KPOP" account.
Anyone who has been previously using pine has (probably) been
using the pine-inc script, but hypothetical testers reading this
mail might have been storing their mail on the server.
-Jacob
