Subject: Remote IMAP, Passwords

From: [email-masked]
Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:24:41 -0500

I'd like to use pine on a computer system at work to access mail
received at my personal account at a local ISP.  I use Eudora from
my Mac at home to retrieve mail from the IMAP server at the ISP, so
I'm sure the ISP end is OK.

I think I have .pinerc configured to access that IMAP server at my
ISP.  I think my problem is that I'm unable to set the password I need
to access the remote IMAP server.  When I try to use the pine new
password command, pine asks me for the old password.  I haven't the
foggiest idea what the password value is!  The only password that
matters at Transarc is the Kerberos password, but I doubt that this is
what is being checked by pine.  I haven't used the UNIX 'passwd'
command in years.  In any case, I don't want to use the same password
at work and at the ISP.

So, where does pine look for the password?  How do I set it if I can't
provide the old value?  The /etc/passwd entry on the system where I
ran pine has "!", which probably means look somewhere else.

Thanks,
Barry Wolman
[email-masked]
[email-masked]

-- 
Barry Wolman
Pittsburgh, PA

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From: [email-masked] (The Shrim Dude!)
Date: 20 Mar 1995 00:29:51 GMT

You need to key in your ISP account's login passwd in order to download mail
from that account via 'imap'. Do you mean by "set the password"  be able to
change the passwd on the ISP account while accessing that account via imap
from Pine. In that case the answer is 'no'. Atelast not at the moment...
Pine's change passwd feature belongs only to localhost not remote.

In comp.mail.pine, some queer sunspot activity fomented [email-masked] to pen:
 -  I'd like to use pine on a computer system at work to access mail
 -  received at my personal account at a local ISP.  I use Eudora from
 -  my Mac at home to retrieve mail from the IMAP server at the ISP, so
 -  I'm sure the ISP end is OK.

 -  I think I have .pinerc configured to access that IMAP server at my
 -  ISP.  I think my problem is that I'm unable to set the password I need
 -  to access the remote IMAP server.  When I try to use the pine new
 -  password command, pine asks me for the old password.  I haven't the
 -  foggiest idea what the password value is!  The only password that
 -  matters at Transarc is the Kerberos password, but I doubt that this is
 -  what is being checked by pine.  I haven't used the UNIX 'passwd'
 -  command in years.  In any case, I don't want to use the same password
 -  at work and at the ISP.

 -  So, where does pine look for the password?  How do I set it if I can't
 -  provide the old value?  The /etc/passwd entry on the system where I
 -  ran pine has "!", which probably means look somewhere else.

 -  Thanks,
 -  Barry Wolman
 -  [email-masked]
 -  [email-masked]

 -  -- 
 -  Barry Wolman
 -  Pittsburgh, PA

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