Subject: troubles with rimapd attempts in latest pine

From: Andy Poling <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 13:58:42 -0500

We are running into problems with the automatic attempt to use rimapd in
the new versions of pine.  Here's the problem:

User starts up PINE to our mail server.  Rsh et al are not allowed to this
machine (using method similar to tcp_wrapper).  Some O/S's rsh client do not
handle this situation well - they hang when the original TCP connection is
accepted but then shutdown and the return connection (for stderr) is not
established.  They hang forever.  The user can't get to their mail.  This
happens with clients running Ultrix 4.3, SunOS 4, Solaris, Risc/OS and AIX
(at least, so far).  In fact, the only client that will work so far is
running Irix.

Perhaps it was not a good idea to take this automatic rimapd approach,
considering modern security awareness...

-Andy

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