[948] in Moira
chpobox bug (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sat Jan 6 12:28:11 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 12:28:05 -0500 (EST)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: moiradev@MIT.EDU
I was going to send this to bugs, but I'm not completely convinced
that it really is a bug...
| danw@technomage:~> chpobox danw
| User danw, Type POP, Box: danw@PO7.MIT.EDU
|
| danw@technomage:~> chpobox -s danw@po6
| User danw, Type POP, Box: danw@po6.MIT.EDU
|
| danw@technomage:~> chpobox -s danw@not-a-real-address
| Warning: hostname not-a-real-address canonicalized to NOT-A-REAL-ADDRESS.MIT.EDU
| User danw, Type SMTP, Box: danw@NOT-A-REAL-ADDRESS.MIT.EDU
|
| danw@technomage:~> chpobox -p
| User danw, Type POP, Box: danw@po6.MIT.EDU
Although `chpobox -p' doesn't do what I thought it would (revert me to
po7 where I belong), it does actually do what the man page claims it
will do (revert you to the last pop pobox you had).
I guess if my changing my own pobox would have dire consequences, then
the fact that chpobox lets me do so is a bug, and otherwise it's just
another unsupported feature like forwarding your mail to two different
addresses.
Oh, also, there are two bugs in the chpobox man page: it refers to
ATHENA.MIT.EDU addresses where it probably ought to refer to MIT.EDU
addresses. And the example of how to not make it canonicalize the
address you give it is no longer accurate. (`lcs.mit.edu' does not
canonicalize to `ptt.lcs.mit.edu'.)
-- Dan
