[1044] in athena10
Re: mail on linux.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Feb 3 23:35:31 2009
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:34:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jonathan A. Solomon" <jsol@mit.edu>
cc: nelhage@mit.edu, linerva@mit.edu
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I spent some time seeing if I could get rmail working on
cluster-test.xvm.mit.edu, which is a virtual machine configured like an
Athena 10 (beta) cluster machine. The movemail command included with Emacs
doesn't support IMAP and definitely doesn't support Kerberos, so Debathena
has no support for rmail. Athena 10 does not consider support rmail an
immediate goal. It looks like installing GNU mailutils should support this
in theory, but it probably doesn't work with Kerberos 4, and I wasn't able
to get it to work with Kerberos 5.
If you want to see if you can make it work on cluster-test.xvm.mit.edu,
I've enabled access for you to SSH to it. If you can figure out how to
make it work, we'd love to see patches. Otherwise we'll probably look at
this issue again some time after the more critical Debathena/Athena 10
development is finished.
In the meantime I encourage you to try pine, which is what I use; the
keybindings of rmail seemed at least superficially similar.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
for the Debathena project
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Jonathan A. Solomon wrote:
> well, i can use emacs rmail on the athena dialup machines...
>
> I don't understand why it won't work on yours.
>
> I will continue to use it there ...
>
> --jsol
>
