Subject: owner and group of pine folders

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Jul 1995 03:18:17 GMT

I have a couple accounts on one system and I'd like to be able
to access the mail folders in both these accounts using pine
running on one of the accounts.  When the folder is owned
by the userid that's running the pine process, there's no problem.
But if the folder is owned by another userid, pine is not able
to open the folder, even if it has the same group as the userid
running the process and has 660 permission, e.g.:

-rw-rw----  1 nancym  mcgough  blah blah blah    folder1
-rw-rw----  1 ii      mcgough  blah blah blah    folder2

I'm able to look at both folder1 and folder2 using less or more
but if I'm logged in as nancym and try to open folder2 using pine
I get this message:

	[Not a folder: folder2]

It would be great if the next release of pine would let me open
a folder like this, but if you don't allow that it would be good
to give a more informative error message, e.g. "Not owned by you."

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: [email-masked] (The Shriminator)
Date: 11 Jul 1995 01:05:32 GMT

Haven't you tried using the superkewl 'imap' for this? Comments ?

Nancy McGough writes in comp.mail.pine:
 +  I have a couple accounts on one system and I'd like to be able
 +  to access the mail folders in both these accounts using pine
 +  running on one of the accounts.  When the folder is owned
 +  by the userid that's running the pine process, there's no problem.
 +  But if the folder is owned by another userid, pine is not able
 +  to open the folder, even if it has the same group as the userid
 +  running the process and has 660 permission, e.g.:

 +  -rw-rw----  1 nancym  mcgough  blah blah blah    folder1
 +  -rw-rw----  1 ii      mcgough  blah blah blah    folder2

 +  I'm able to look at both folder1 and folder2 using less or more
 +  but if I'm logged in as nancym and try to open folder2 using pine
 +  I get this message:

 +  	[Not a folder: folder2]

 +  It would be great if the next release of pine would let me open
 +  a folder like this, but if you don't allow that it would be good
 +  to give a more informative error message, e.g. "Not owned by you."

 +  Thanks,
 +  Nancy

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