Subject: PINE CONFUSION

From: [email-masked] (John Blacker)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 16:29:26

I hope someone can help me through the confusion.  I'm new to the "Unix world" 
and have recently installed Linux which contains pine.  I was told by my 
internet access provider that pine would allow me to send/receive mail by 
pointing it at the slip service providers system (DIAL.CIC.NET).  In looking 
at the .pinerc, I see where I think I put: {dial.cic.net}inbox.  Is that all I 
have to change?  Do I need smail/sendmail?  My goal is to be able to send and 
receive mail when logged on to my Linux machine.  Does it matter what userid 
I'm logged on to Linux with?  I believe I have to run DIP under root?  After I 
get my slip connection going, do I then logout of root and logon under my real 
internet userid (jblacker) ?  Help!
John C. Blacker, CDP
Blacker & Assoc.
email: [email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 20:13:54 -0700 (PDT)

John,

Setting 

	inbox-path={dial.cic.net}INBOX

is sufficient to take care of your INBOX.  If you want access to folders on
the remote machine, set

	folder-collections="Local Folders"	mail/[],
			   "CIC Folders"	{dial.cic.net}mail/[]

Pine will use sendmail by default to send mail, but if you want to avoid 
the hassle, you can set

	smtp-server=dial.cic.net

to use the remote server for sending.  I don't know the details of DIP 
usage, but I presume you have to start it as root.  Pine will prompt you 
for a username/password on the remote server, so it doesn't really matter 
who you are logged in as on the local machine.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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