[Macpartners] Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Update

[Carolyn Fuller]

Helen,

> Kerberos is completely usable. The only known Kerberos issue is if  
> you have implemented Kerberos tickets on login, which involves  
> making modifications to the /etc/authorization file. If you have  
> never edited this file, you (and your users) are not affected.

This is not true. There is the issue that MIT and Apple are working  
on right now that involves Rich Text Formatted Mail.app email and  
Kerberos. This is a pretty serious bug that causes incoming email and  
gibberish to be appended onto outgoing email. Setting your  
"Composing: Message Format: Plain Text" does not mean you will avoid  
this bug. If you copy and paste Rich Text, it will stay Rich Text  
unless you remember to manually convert to plain text before you hit  
"Send".

I think there are other bugs with Mail.app 2.0.1 (730) and Kerberos.  
For instance, even after removing config & mail files from my home  
directory Library, I still cannot send file attachments via Mail.app.  
I hope that MIT and Apple are working on this bug as well.

And the Tiger Java problem that is causing the incompatibility with  
SAPGui is very serious for me. I can not upgrade my 10.3.9 desktop  
until this is resolved because I spend too much of my day in SAPGui  
for Citrix to be the solution for me. It crashes a fair amount if you  
are in it for too long. Maybe it is timing out? And as long as my  
desktop is on 10.3.9 I'm really frustrated with Mail.app. It is  
impossible under 10.3.9. And I can't revert to using Eudora because  
Eudora does not find a lot of my IMAP mailboxes! So I end up using my  
laptop for Mail.app email without file attachments and my desktop for  
Eudora email with file attachments. It is UGLY!

Argh! I wish there was greater support here or from Apple for these  
problems. Apple was VERY responsive when the problem was incoming  
email being attached to outgoing email. But I feel like the day to  
day frustrations with file attachments are being ignored by both  
Apple and MIT and it is frustrating!


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Carolyn Fuller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Services and Technology
Administrative Computing
Senior Analyst/Programmer
(617) 253-6213
http://fuller.mit.edu/