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Re: Athena 9.1 public release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jul 8 23:16:59 2002

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:16:55 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon,  8 Jul 2002
at 20:02:06 -0400 in <200207090002.UAA20393@error-messages.mit.edu>:

> Release notes are available through the "help" command.  The biggest
> change is the switch from xmh to Evolution for the default GUI mail
> client, and from nmh to Pine for the recommended tty mail client.  The
> old mail clients are still present and supported, of course.

Is there any plan to address the "evolution totally croaks on large
mailboxes" issue that I saw (with my 5k message mailbox)?

Anecdotally, Arun has also seen it with a 20k message mailbox.

It seems like it might be important.

--jhawk

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