Subject: Re: IMAP connection time

From: [email-masked] (Clifford)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 00:26:53 +0100

>> An IMAP server has recently been setup on the Universities central
	>> VAX VMS system. I have changed the pine configuration on our unix
	>> boxes to do additional mail collections from
	>> 	LABEL {host}inbox
	>
	>Use LABEL {host:143}inbox. By default, Pine uses rsh to try to login to 
	>the IMAP server and if it can't get in it will then prompt for username 
	>and password.  The delay is probably because your IMAP server doesn't 
	>have rsh enabled due to security, and it is timing out after about 30 
	>seconds.  I had the same problem and couldn't find host:port documented. 
	>143 is the socket the the IMAP server listens on.  Specifying this tells 
	>it to connect directly to the socket without trying to use rsh first.
	> 
	>| John   R.   Violette |           Software Development         |
	>
	>
Thanks John that was it.

Clifford W Fulford
University of North London
CLMS-UNIX development
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