Subject: Help with PC-pine authentication

From: Lucio Chiappetti <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 17:55:38 +0200 (MET DST)

We need some help with PC-Pine, which we intend to install on our PCs.
We are already using Pine on Unix (me personally since 3.05, and now
it's becoming the default mailer), and have an impad server on one of
the Suns, which we manage to access from the other workstations.

We have now done our first installation on a PC (with FTP Inc. PC-TCP)
and have problems accessing the remote imapd inbox (Pine looks all right,
in fact it can SEND mail without problems).

Our inetd.conf looks like :

#
# for PINE imapd
#
imap stream tcp nowait root /data1/pine/imapd-bin.sun imapd

In addition in /etc we have a link 

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root 25 Mar 24 16:13 rimapd -> /data1/pine/imapd-bin.sun

This link was essential to have access to remote folder working on Unix,
but, as the doc says, is not what is needed for PCs.

What we have done on the PC is : have a PINERC file with all the same
settings as on Unix (pine.conf), plus putting a user-id equal to the
Unix username.

The inbox-path is {helios.ifctr.mi.cnr.it}INBOX

We get error : can't connect to helios.ifctr.mi.cnr.it,143 Refused (61)

(It's imapd, because we can e.g. telnet to host helios, or send mail
via smtp-server kronos). By the way mail outgoing from the PC says
"UNauthenticated mail".

I have read the documentation, found mentions of a password, and of
a file PINE.PWD (but not of its content), but we are NEVER prompted
any password (and the Setup Newpassword option is n/a to PCs).

We tried some fudges with .rhosts and hosts.equiv, but with no success.
Could you provide us any clue ?

I'm sending this in reply to a colleague which is looking after the
PC business (I'm on the Unix end). Please reply in cc: to him too, since
I'm away tomorrow.
Thanks.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 15:17:47 -0800 (PST)

Lucio,

The imapd configuration on your server (helios) is not correct.  A simple 
test is to telnet to port 143 on the server, e.g. 

	telnet helios.ifctr.mi.cnr.it 143

There are variations between different versions of Unix in the specific 
configuration of inetd, so it is hard to give specific advice without 
more information.

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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