Subject: PC-PINE and blank messages

From: "Kevin R. Coombes" <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 Nov 1995 16:48:46 GMT

Hi. I'm trying to install PC Pine and running into some problems.
The IMAP server at the other end has also just been installed; it's
the IMAP4 server from the University of Washington. I used telnet to
connect directly to port 143 on the host, and I can do everything I'm
supposed to be able to do interactively, so I believe the IMAP server
is okay.

One of the PCs is running Novell Netware 3.12. I installed pcpine_n onto
the machine. It never manages to connect to the server; I always get a
host unknown message. This even happens if I use the dotted-quad numeric
IP address of the host instead of the domain name.

The second PC is running a newer version of Novell Netware. (4.02??)
On this PC, pcpine_n is able to connect to the IMAP server and it tells
me the correct number of available messages. Unfortunately, it insists
that all of the messages have completely blank subject lines and message
bodies. That makes it easy to read my mail in a hurry, but it just happens
to be incorrect behavior.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Kevin Coombes <[email-masked]>

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From: "Kevin R. Coombes" <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 Nov 1995 21:50:53 GMT

I realize it's bad form to follow up your own posting, but I've discovered
some additional information about my problem. Readers of the first installment
will recall that I'm trying to get the latest version of PC Pine (acquired
from the University of Washington in the form of the file pcpine_n.zip) to
work on a PC running Novell Netware 4.2. The symptom I described previously
is that Pine conects to the remote IMAP server, lists the correct number of
messages, but they have blank headers and bodies. While trying to figure out
what was going on, I discovered:

If new mail arrives while PC Pine is running, then suddenly the mail becomes
visible. If the folder is open at the time, then only the new messages are
visible. If the folder is closed but Pine is running, then opening the folder
will make all the mail visible, both new and old.

Has anybody seen this before? Does anyone have any idea what's happening?

Thanks again,

Kevin <[email-masked]>