[729] in athena10
Re: alpine doesn't read MH mailboxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Dec 11 12:48:04 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:47:19 -0500
In my opinion, supporting MH mail via a robust user interface such as
pine or evolution is an order of magnitude easier than supporting a
maze of twisty little command line utilities, all different.
I'll defer to other CSS folks, but I'd rather see command-line MH
vanish and people who need to access their MH mail can do so via pine
or Evolution. I noticed that Evolution on Debathena also doesn't
support MH. I assume that's much harder than a one line change in a
config file?
-Jon
On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I believe, when doing the alpine work, that I decided the Athena email
> transition is over (there are still people using MH folders, but
> they're
> mostly beyond our help) and that the support impact of omitting the
> #mh
> collection would be lower than the maintenance burden of retaining it.
>
> If CSS has a different opinion, then it's probably not that hard of a
> change to put back in.
>
>
