[18854] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.23: chpobox manpage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Mon Mar 5 11:24:44 2001
Message-Id: <200103051624.LAA19936@denmark-vesey.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:24:37 -0500
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
System name: denmark-vesey.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.23 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
Window manager: /mit/windowmanagers/sun4bin/vtwm.gamma -f /mit/nocturne/dotfiles/vtwmrc
What were you trying to do?
Correctly anticipate the operation of chpobox.
What's wrong:
The manpage appears to be incorrect:
> Note that the actual change will not take place on the mail
> hub until the following day.
>
> Regular users may change and retrieve information about only
> their own post office boxes.
What should have happened:
The first point is no longer strictly true, and users could conceivably be
inconvenienced by incorrectly anticipating the effects of a chpobox. It
might be more accurate to say something along the lines of "will not take
place immediately on the mail hub, but rather may take up to a day to
propagate."
The second point seems to be wrong; I can query other users' mailboxes:
> denmark-vesey% chpobox sipb0
> User sipb0, Type IMAP, Box: sipb0.po (sipb0@PO9.MIT.EDU)
> Modified by sipb0 on 18-aug-1999 18:49:50 with chpobox
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
See above. =)
