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Re: Mutt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shreevatsa R)
Mon Mar 9 02:24:19 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:23:27 -0400
From: Shreevatsa R <vatsa@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Thanks!
The bare minimum mutt config needed to work with MIT mail is a line like
set spoolfile="imap://$USER@`hesinfo $USER pobox | awk '{print $2}'`"
There is a config file in /mit/sipb/etc/Muttrc-1.5.12 which contains a
few other config options [only 21 of its 4000-odd lines are non-comments
though. :)] I can also look at my config file and remove things that are
just personal preference and reply again later, but note that I'm not an
expert; it just happens that for historical reasons mutt is the email
client I'm most familiar with. :)
Point about sudo/root noted, thanks.
Another observation is that the logout screen has a "Switch user" option,
but it doesn't seem to work on the cluster machines. There's no harm in
its remaining there, but if it's simple to make it go away, it would be
nice to do so. :)
Thanks,
Shreevatsa
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:03:16AM -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi Shreevatsa -
> Sorry to hear that mutt doesn't work on the Debathena Beta systems.
> It definitely sounds like its just a matter of recompiling them to link
> against newer libraries. I'll ask the maintainers of the sipb locker if
> they can do that.
>
> I think in general I'd be fine with putting mutt in the release, but
> ideally I'd like to also provide some modicum of configuration. I don't
> use mutt myself, so I'm not really sure where to start, but do you think
> you could come up with a config file snippet to configure mutt for MIT
> e-mail? (Or alternatively, would one of the other mutt users on this
> list like to come up with such a snippet?)
>
> As for the system notifications, there are a couple of issues here.
> First, to address the direct cause, we pushed an update earlier today
> that should get rid of the apt-file cache notification. We'll probably
> be attacking some of those other notifications over the next month.
>
> I will point out that you are actually a sudoer on Debathena, and you
> can su, as the root password is the same as under Athena 9. However, any
> changes made to the system during your login session are temporary, and
> are undone when you log out, so there's not really much point to taking
> system updates anyway.
>
> - Evan
>
> Shreevatsa R wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just used a Debathena Beta cluster machine today, and when I try to
> > start my favourite email-client (mutt), this happens:
> >
> > ~$ mutt
> > mutt: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > I guess this is because mutt is
> >
> > ~$ type -p mutt
> > /mit/sipb/arch/i386_rhel4/bin/mutt
> >
> > and it's just not built for Debathena. Could you make mutt part of the
> > default release? :)
> >
> > Another issue I noticed with Debathena Beta is that it shows me
> > notifications about updating the apt cache etc. (update-notifier),
> > which as a non-root/non-sudo user I'm not in a position to do
> > anything about. I removed it from System->Preferences->Sessions,
> > but it would be good to not show it to users by default.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shreevatsa
> >
