Subject: Pine requiring logon when using remote imapd

From: "Michael J. Sheppard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 09:48:04 +0000 (GMT)

Hi,

I have pine running on a HP 9000/730 talking to imapd running on a Sparc
system. No matter how I seem to set up my /etc/hosts.equiv, .rhosts,
.netrc I cannot get pine to start up without prompting me to logon to the
Sparc system.

I have no problem with any other programs which use the rexec mechanism,
they all let me on without prompting for the password.

Has anyone any ideas about this, my users are getting a little tired of
having to type in their password whenever they want to read their mail.

Thanks in advance,

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From: OFER Lapid 4X6OJ <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 13:34:23 +0200 (IST)

Whenever pine is used over dialup line I get this annoying behaviour that
many keystrokes are left in the buffer while the screen is drawn and are
executed later causing a very bad navigation problem.
Take a good example from rn which flushes the input buffer just after
sending the text to the screen and prior to getting the next command.

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Ofer Lapid 4X6OJ
E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: Barry Cornelius <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 11:33:21 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 9 Mar 1993, Michael J. Sheppard wrote:

> ...

Setting the inbox-path to use a remote IMAP inbox and linking /etc/rimapd
to /usr/etc/imapd on the remote machine works when pine is executed on a
Sun workstation.  If pine is executed on an HP workstation, it asks you
for your username and password. 

A call of execl in c-client/os_hpp.c uses the Unix remote shell command.
The code says:
   execl ("/usr/ucb/rsh","rsh",hostname,"exec",service,0);
On the HPs, the binary of the remote shell command is in /usr/bin/remsh and
not in /usr/ucb/rsh.   So the code needs to be:
   execl ("/usr/bin/remsh","remsh",hostname,"exec",service,0);

I have recently installed pine for both Suns and HPs.  There are other bug
fixes that I have made.  Some of these are to fix code that is incorrect
for the HPs, some are for both Suns and HPs.  I will send these bug fixes in
soon.

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