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Somebody complained about the 'from' command

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Thu Jul 30 20:16:58 1992

From: haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 17:16:45 -0700
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU

and the messages it gives at login time when you don't have an Athena pobox.

Here is a context diff to the system login file to suppress those
messages, if you decide you want to.  (We did at UCSC)

***************
*** 99,105 ****
--- 99,110 ----
        if ($?verbose_login) echo "Running standard startup activities ..."
        set ignoreeof                   # ^D won't log you out
        zwgc -ttymode                   # Start Zephyr client
+
+       hesinfo $user pobox >& /dev/null
+       if ($status == 0) then
                from -t -n              # Check for mail
+       endif
+
        (olc who &) >& /dev/null        # Ping the OLC server
  endif

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