[7951] in SIPB bug reports
Re: making pine a symlink to pine-imap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Fri Mar 1 14:25:24 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:25:20 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
Cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>, Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@mit.edu>,
bug-sipb@mit.edu
Message-ID: <20020301192520.GE7381@innocuous.mit.edu>
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Why not make pine a script that checks for ~/pine/mailbox/or/something
and chooses pine-afs or pine-imap that way?
I presume the current reason is that no one has written the script. I
claim hosage and lack of pine knowledge as my excuse.
Tibbetts
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:05:12PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Jacob" == Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Jacob> Unfortunately, they will notice. Most people keep a number
> Jacob> of messages in their INBOX. People using "pine" have their
> Jacob> INBOX in their AFS directory, and people using "pine-imap"
> Jacob> have their INBOX on the mail server.
>
>
> But if pine is going to be in the release as an IMAP client, people
> will eventually get screwed by this anyway. How about making pine be
> a script that tells people they need to either run pine-imap or
> pine-afs and that pine-imap will become the default (although run out
> of the release not the SIPB locker) in a few months.
>
