Subject: pine not sending out mail

From: [email-masked] (Alan Murphy)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 15:54:24 GMT

Hi,

I have recently loaded pine 3.91 onto our UnixWare 1.1 system for a
colleague.  However, after a week or so of pine appearing to work
ok, it now does not send out *any* mail, although there is no error
(pine seems to think that it is OK), and worse, no evidence of the
mail anywhere :-(.   Elm, mailx etc seem to be working fine.

Anyone any ideas ?

-- 
Alan Murphy
jAC, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, England.
Tel:  +44-(0)442-235515   Fax: +44-(0)442-233515  email:[email-masked]

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From: Gregg Brekke <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Jun 1995 14:18:55 GMT

>mail anywhere :-(.   Elm, mailx etc seem to be working fine.

Make sure you are setting the "smtp-server=" variable to the fqdn of your 
mail server/forwarder in the .pinerc file.

I am running Solaris 2.4 and UnixWare, both of these systems can't send 
mail from Pine without this variable set.  There is probably a better way 
to fix this through a code patch, but this seems to solve the problem.

Later,
Gregg

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From: [email-masked] (Ben Regen)
Date: 15 Jun 1995 10:20:08 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
>to fix this through a code patch, but this seems to solve the problem.

  I am also running Solaris 2.4, but if pine is run on a machine that is
also the smtp-server and "smtp-server=" is set to this local machine, NO
mail will be sent.  A message is returned saying--
[Error connecting to mail server: ]

  If the "smtp-server=" is changed to any other smpt server it works just fine.

Any ideas as to what might cause this?

Thanks in advance,

	Ben Regen    [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Murphy)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 08:32:21 GMT

>mail server/forwarder in the .pinerc file.

Thanks,  I had already discoverd this by running pine in debug mode
and looking at how it was trying to send the mail, in this case it
was using 'sendmail', which wasnt working :-(.

As you suggested above, I changed the "smtp-server" variable, but in
my case I used the global config file /usr/local/pine/pine.conf.
You can type 'pine -conf' to generate the default config file if you
dont already have this file.