[731] in athena10
Re: alpine doesn't read MH mailboxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Dec 11 15:32:11 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:30:25 -0500
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This seems low cost and high value.
Let's make that change to the wrapper script and get it checked in.
Who is autarch of that subsystem these days?
-Bill
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 12:47 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I believe it would come down to adding code to the wrapper script
> to set
> up a mail account for MH access.
>
>