Ticket #126 (closed defect: fixed)
debathena-alpine-config should use DEB_TRANSFORM_FILES
| Reported by: | broder | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Keywords: | proposed | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
The Debathena pine.conf is 537 lines long. I bet we didn't write all of that.
We should use DEB_TRANSFORM_FILES so that it's clear what in that file is local change and what is system defaults.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by broder
Oh, wow. I apparently used a really old and crusty pine.conf without realizing it. Let's try this again:
- user-domain: mit.edu
- nntp-server: news.mit.edu
- inbox-path: {mit.edu/hesiod/imap}INBOX
- feature-list:
enable-mail-check-cue save-will-quote-leading-froms enable-full-header-cmd
- bugs-fullname: Athena Bugs
- bugs-address: bugs@…
- suggest-fullname: Athena Suggestions
- suggest-address: suggest@…
- local-fullname: Athena Consultants
- local-address: old-mail@…
- url-viewers: /usr/bin/sensible-browser
- folder-collections: "MIT Mail" {mit.edu/hesiod/imap}INBOX.[]
- sendmail-path: /usr/lib/debathena-msmtp -t
- rsh-open-timeout=0
- ssh-open-timeout=0
- new-version-threshold=z
new-version-threshold has the following comment:
# (Athena hack: 'z' should be lexically greater than any pine version.)
These all seem to be basically sane, modulo the feature-list, which don't mean anything to me. I wonder if we set sensible-browser or if Debian/Ubuntu? does.
comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by tabbott
It might make sense to remove the bugs-fullname and similar customizations if all we're doing is configuring alpine.
I think "ssh-open-timeout" and "rsh-open-timeout" seem out of place.
comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by broder
Hmm...why are we explicitly using msmtp? That seems like we're clearly ignoring a sysadmin's decision of what MTA to use.
Can we come up with a way to use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead?
My best idea so far is switching the dependency on debathena-msmtp-config to depending debathena-msmtp-mta | mail-transport-agent, but if there's already a mail-transport-agent installed, that doesn't quite provide the impetus to install debathena-msmtp-instead.
geofft points out:
debathena / alpine / geofft 23:42 (One can't proceed from the informal to th
I think that might be why we do this, so the Debathenized mail client
uses Athena mail delivery, but the rest of the system remains intact.
Ok. Here are a list of the values that seem to have been changed from the default. The default setting for all of these appears to be the empty string.
"MIT Mail" {mit.edu/hesiod/imap}INBOX.[], "Old MH Mail" #mh/[], "Old Pine Mail" ~/mail/[]new-version-threshold has the following comment:
These all seem to be basically sane, modulo the feature-list, which don't mean anything to me. I wonder if we set sensible-browser or if Debian/Ubuntu? does.