Subject: Re: smtp-server=

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 16:51:29 -0800 (PST)

Philip,

Sorry about the slow response!  Thanks for the suggestions.  We will be 
looking into way of getting what you are looking for.

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
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On Wed, 12 Jan 1994, Philip Hazel wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
> [email-masked]             New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
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>