Subject: smtp-server=

From: Philip Hazel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 11:16:25 +0000 (GMT)

A suggestion to the Pine Team:

We've just uncovered an uncomfortable trap. A user who had been using 
PC-Pine logged onto our Unix system and wanted to use Pine there. He 
naturally copied his pinerc file from the PC to the Unix system. The 
problem was, it contained

smtp-server=<something>

which caused behaviour that we don't want; we want all mail sent on the 
Unix system to go through sendmail (= smail, actually). Would it be 
possible to have an option in the system pinerc that said "don't take any 
notice of smtp-server settings in users' pinerc files"?

In fact, we'd appreciate a more general facility whereby we could give a
list of options that users were not allowed to change. (Have I suggested
this before?) As well as a general Unix system, we also have a "mail-only" 
system, and currently have to hack Pine on that system to prevent users
escaping via the alternate editor and printer configuration options. 

Regards,
Philip

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