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Re: eudora 3.0.2 installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Vale)
Mon Mar 17 01:13:26 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03020905af4f77b05ad9@[18.81.0.167]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 01:12:20 -0500
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
From: Marshall Vale <mjv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU
At 4:53 PM -0500 3/14/97, Alicia Allen wrote:
>I was doing some testing/learning about the Eudora 3.0.2 installer,
>and I ran into what I believe is a problem.
>I was on a PM 7100 in the Training Lab, I checked to make sure that
>there were no files relating to Eudora on the computer, none with that
>name in it, nothing in the system folder, and i threw away kclient &
>kerberos client preferences. I then ran the Eudora installer. It did the
>install just fine, no problems, but it never did the part at the end where
>it sets up some of the settings for the user. It never prompted me for my
>name or username or anything. I then ran Eudora, and I had to go into
>settings and put those all in myself. The POP account and everything was
>blank.
In such a case, a Eudora settings file was probably still lingering around
to cause the Installer to not run the EIA (Eudora Installer Assistant).
A quick guess was that perhaps you moved a copy to the Trash but had
not yet emptied the Trash? That might be a condition that we'll have
to look into. A Eudora Settings backup file would also probably cause
this condition...
>I have some questions about the options under settings.
>Things where I know that they are optional, but I'm wondering what the IS
>perspective is on them (so I can inform the consultants). These include
>stuff like: "Overlap POP3 commands for better performance"
>The manual indicates that this could be hard on your server.
>
>Where would be the best place to address those questions? the eudora
>mailing list?
Yeah, eudora@mit.edu would probably be the right place. One thing I can
add though is that we did sit down with the netops folks and went over
each setting relating to networking behaviour in Eudora (including future
versions) as to what its default should be. If the setting is turned off,
that is their recommendation. In cases where they particularly didn't
like a feature, we did add a default value (for example: leave
on server's value of 7 days) if a user does turn it on.
Marshall
