[7949] in SIPB bug reports
Re: making pine a symlink to pine-imap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Feb 28 16:25:47 2002
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:25:38 -0500
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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Arun A Tharuvai wrote:
> Enough users have been eited by accidentally running pine, instead of
> pine-imap, and losing mail when going over quota. Would users notice
> (other than not losing occasionally) if the the current pine binary
> was renamed, and pine is made a symlink to pine-imap ?
Unfortunately, they will notice. Most people keep a number of messages
in their INBOX. People using "pine" have their INBOX in their AFS
directory, and people using "pine-imap" have their INBOX on the mail server.
Pine absolutely refuses to tell people what their INBOX points to, so
people won't notice that the old inbox is still around, because they
never learned that "~/mail/inbox" was their inbox.
The mail is still availble, but there will be a support headache with
people thinking "AUGH! My mail is GONE!"
I've been badly failing to cope with thesis lately. I still think that
Greg's transition plan looked good, but I don't know if anyone is going
to spend time to implement it.
-Jake
