Subject: pine3.91 sometimes hangs on compose with AIX

From: [email-masked] (Dennis Ashworth)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 95 21:37:42 EDT

I have been using Pine for several months on a RISC 6000 running AIX 3.2.
Most of my users (accounts) experience no  problems...but for some users,
at various times, when they go to compose a message, the program hangs
at the to name prompt.  It's really strange...sometimes it works, other
times it hangs...I cann't seem  to find a pattern.
I'll admit, I don't know much about configuring pine.  I compiled it and
pico.  I don't have a pine.conf...each user has a .pinerc file.
I'm not using imap (using pop3)...is imap necessary?
 
Any help would be appreciated!  I would really like to use pine as our
campus mail program, if I could just get around this "hanging" up
problem.
Dennis

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From: Joshua Hosseinoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 05:04:20 -0400

This was a problem for us a long time ago and was solved by linking the 
program with termcap instead of curses.  The only problem with that 
solution is that the default termcap on AIX is pretty barebones, but you 
can easily find a good one on some ftp sites out there.
>From what I can tell, the problem may have been solved using the version 
3.6 of the imap distribution (this does not mean using the imap daemon, 
the imap dist. is what goes in the c-client directory and what builds the 
c-client library), but I haven't tested it for sure as termcap works fine 
for us.

Josh Hosseinoff
[email-masked]