Subject: Pine on several DEC Alphas?

From: [email-masked] (Chris Stoddart)
Date: 13 Jul 1995 09:06:03 GMT

Hi,

I've just been trying to install Pine 3.91 on a cluster of DEC Alphas running
OSF/1, and I can't quite get it to work right. Here is the situation: Several 
workstations are connected to a serverto which incoming mail is delivered. 
Users $HOME directories are NFS-mounted from the server, but the incoming
mailbox /var/spool/mail/$USER is local to each machine.

Now when Pine starts up on any machine I want it to look in the INBOX on the
server for that person. This means using imapd. I've tried installing imapd
on the server and even on the client, but when you start Pine connection from 
one of the client machines I get the message 'connection refused'. 

Anybody got any idea about this? The server definitely knows about the client
because they are NFS-sharing disks :-) The Pine technical notes say something
about using rimap, but I can't follow this at all. I am using a pine.conf.fixed
file on each machine to tell it where to look for the INBOX. Could the syntax 
of this be causing problems? (if I use a clients pine.conf.fixed on the server,
then the server refuses connection to it's own INBOX!) 

In short has anyone set up a Unix cluster in this way? How have you done it?!!
I'd be very (very) grateful for your ideas.

Chris Stoddart
Dept. of Physics
The Open University
Milton Keynes
U.K.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:40:43 -0700 (PDT)

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> one of the client machines I get the message 'connection refused'.

Did you add imap to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf then restart inetd
on the server?  A very basic test to see if imapd is properly configured
is to telnet to the IMAP port (143) on the server.  If you get a one-line
banner, it is working...

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