[949] in Moira
Re: chpobox bug (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 8 14:27:50 1996
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
To: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 1996 12:28:05 EST."
<199601061728.MAA09064@technomage.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 14:27:38 EST
>> 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.
Yup, it's well known that users can change their pobox, it's
discouraged, but possible. About the worst thing that can happen is
that you can get some mail on the old PO that you don't know about.
>> 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'.)
I'll try to deal with these soon. Can anyone think of a good example
fro the canionicalization problem?
