Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkipping Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkipping?atomcommentsDWiki2020-08-10T04:28:19ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkipping.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkippingtag:CSpace:blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkipping:f90d6419ed0cc71a452ef6631b9407e928ce9600Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>The short version is that our mail system supports a variety of features
that are not available in the university's central system, and people
are pretty attached to various of these features (different people care
about different features, in the way of these things). People are also
attached to their current department email addresses, but it might be
possible to preserve them in a transition (we haven't explored this
because of the features issue).</p>
<p>(We would always have to operate our own mail environment for internal
system mail from cron jobs and the like, but that's another thing
entirely than normal email exposed to people.)</p>
<p>Most of our people these days read their email through IMAP so they
wouldn't notice too much of a change there. There are some people
who still read their email through a Unix login, but it's now pretty
uncommon.</p>
</div>2020-08-10T04:28:19ZBy john on /blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkippingtag:CSpace:blog/linux/Ubuntu2004MaybeMostlySkipping:02fcc2aa9522e9896fa2df7252f4a2488ff349fejohn<div class="wikitext"><p>why are you still running email on a small scale with lots of complexity in 2020? why can't people just use your normal utoronto.ca accounts?</p>
<p>other than "it has always been this way" and people liking the idea of reading their mail off a linux box, is there really a business justification for this?</p>
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