[9846] in SIPB bug reports
warning wrapper script around sipb pine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Sat Jan 10 01:44:45 2004
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:44:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
cc: aatharuv@MIT.EDU
So people now and again are unlucky enough to login on pre 9.1 machines
(e.g the 6.111 lab, as one person zephyring to help,mail, did), run pine,
and find their mail is no longer on the mail server, or worse, got
downloaded to disk, and filled their quota, causing mail lossage.
Can anyone think of any problems if I stick in a wrapper script for pine
which checks for the existence of ~/.athena-pine-noask, warns them that
they're on a really really old machine and may notice breakage, and then
tells them to either run pine-imap, or tells them to login to
athena.dialup to check their mail? The only problem I can think off
offhand is that people who have add -f sipb in their dotfiles who were
unknowingly running sipb pine would abruptly notice a difference in
behavior.
Arun
aatharuv (at) mit (dot) edu
aat (at) alum (dot) mit (dot) edu
