Subject: Pine takes REALLY long to connect

From: [email-masked] (0000-Admin(0000))
Date: 28 Oct 1995 01:59:18 GMT

I am running Pine on one machine, and on another one the SMTP server.  It takes 
about a minute for pine to even ask me the userid and password.  Is there a way 
to make connecting to the SMTP server faster.  Please help...

Thanks in advance,
Mike

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:13:09 +0000 (GMT)

Pine first tries to use "rsh" to make a pre-authenticated connection to 
your IMAP host (so you can have Pine start automatically without having 
to enter your username and password each time).

The delay you are experiencing is almost certainly because Pine is 
attempting this, but your IMAP server is not set up to allow it.

The easiest solution (certainly for the users) is to set this up.  This 
is done very simply:

1. On the IMAP server make a link from /etc/rimapd to your imapd
executable (and make sure the latter has at least x access to group and
others).

2. Next do whatever you need to get your IMAP server machine to trust your
other hosts so that the rsh mechanism works (either each user has to set
up a .rhosts file, or the administrator sets up a hosts.equiv file). Note 
that this would allow any user to rsh to the server and do anything, so 
if it is intended only as an IMAP server you may like to write a little 
shell replacement (for the password file entries) to only allow 
/etc/rimapd to be executed (this is the solution we went for here).

If you don't want to do this, then simply stick the explicit port number 
onto the end of your IMAP mail folder command within Pine's Setup 
Configuration screen (or weherever).  Eg,

	{imap.my.site:143}INBOX

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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