Subject: pop and imap passwording

From: [email-masked] (Chris Avery)
Date: 12 May 1995 01:38:06 -0500

The server I am on has moved there mail to a separate server.  The server 
is using pop and imap to read mail.  My problem is the password is asked 
everytime I use pine. any way to change this?
Chris Avery
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 14 May 1995 19:47:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>everytime I use pine. any way to change this?

Try creating a file ".rhosts" in your home directory containing:

xanadu.io.com

Assuming that xanadu.io.com is where you read your mail.  If it doesn't
work, then you'll need to get up with your system administrator and ask
that "host equivalence" be made between your login machine and the IMAP
server.  If your sysadmin refuses (there are valid reasons to refuse),
then you'll just have to get used to typing your password. 

Incidentally, IMHO host equivalence is actually a Good Thing if you are 
using protocols that send cleartext passwords over the network (which it 
sounds like you are doing).  It seems to me that allowing users 
unauthenticated access when they have presumably already been otherwise 
authenticated is better than sending passwords over the net every time 
you want to read mail!
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill