Subject: Pine hangs when News server is unavailable

From: Keith Reel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:47:22 -0600

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