[2308] in Athena Bugs
Unuseful error message in Emacs' RMAIL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stever@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 31 13:02:23 1989
From: <stever@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 13:01:55 EDT
To: Bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Hi,
My mail is forwarded to stever@ai.mit.edu. I started emacs Rmail
to send a message from an Athena workstation, using "emacs -e rmail."
Entering Rmail, I got the message:
movemail: no POP server listed in Hesiod
While this is a fine error message for a developer or Athena internal
person to receive, it's a bit cryptic to naive users like me. How
about something like:
Your mail is forwarded out of Athena; can't read it into RMAIL.
or, if you really want the developer-type information there, too,
Your mailbox isn't listed with Hesiod; your mail may be forwarded
off-site. So can't read it into RMAIL.
or something.
[Yes, I realize that it's not RMAIL, it's movemail giving the current
error message, so it's probably a little more work than a simple
wording change.]
-- Stephen
