Subject: Pine hangs when News server down

From: Keith Reel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:40:48 -0600

Here is a problem that rears its ugly head from time to time:

We are using Pine 3.91 on a Sun with Solaris 2.4.  We also have a Usenet 
news server running on Linux.

Whenever our Usenet News host goes down, Pine users get hung up at the 
main menu as Pine is "building folder list".  We know that this is 
because when a user sets up his/her folders to read Usenet articles, and 
the News server is down, Pine looks indefinitely for the news host and 
just hangs.

Is there an option in pine.conf that will get around this?  I usually end 
up swapping versions of Pine from 3.91 to 3.89 until the News host is 
back up again, but I'd rather have the problem fixed.

Thanks
Keith Reel