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Re: Temp homedir warning about mail outdated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Tue Jun 14 02:06:27 2005
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To: Mike Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:29:21 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:06:16 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> During today's brief W20 outage I got the temporary homedir warning
> upon login, the one that says that incorporated mail would be lost.
> Given the abandonment of POP this should be removed.
It's certainly time to revisit the warning, but at least on the dialups
pop is far from dead; out of a random two week sample on no-knife, 1528
distinct uids connected to the PO servers (almost everybody uses the
imap 'from' in their dotfiles) of which 312 also made a connection on
port 1109.
I'm sure a lower percentage use pop from the clusters, but I'd rather
irrelevant warnings than insufficient warnings...
