Subject: Re: Pine 3.91/Linux/Imap problem

From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 31 May 1995 22:53:15 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mark Crispin  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>You should either get a remote preauthenticated IMAP server, or an
>immediate error with the command:
>	rsh server /etc/rimapd
>If you aren't, something is wrong with the way your system is set up.

Another possibility:

If you are using a pseudo-SLIP or pseudo-PPP program, such as TIA or
SLiRP, programs running locally are unable to bind to port 513, which rsh
uses.  "Reserved ports" (those with numbers under 1,024 on most operating
systems) cannot be bound unless the process has root authority. 

rsh, rlogin, etc., simply won't run if you are using a pseudo-SLIP or 
pseudo-TIA program, and you must use the {hostname:143}INBOX form in 
order to keep Pine from trying the rsh method, which will hang indefinitely.
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill