Subject: How to specify user-id for imap in-box

From: [email-masked] (Feico de Boer)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:24:40 GMT

Hello world,

Is the following possible in pine:

Specify multiple imap in-boxes with different user-id's. 

I couldn't find something like that in either documentation or source code. 
The feature would be welcome to me since I would like to check mail from 
different users (admin stuff etc.) but log-on from one pine.

How about specifying POP and IMAP folders like below:

incoming-folders=INCOMING inbox,
        INCOMING some_user [email-masked]}inbox,
        INCOMING other_user [email-masked]}inbox

Greetings,

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Nov 95 08:05:48 GMT

[email-masked] (Feico de Boer) writes:
>Assumed you are allowed to connect (1) and do know the root passwd (2).
>Sure we will have lots of fun looking at the logfiles.

$ rm -rf /
What logfiles?  ;-)

>I can already log in to one host but I do need permissions and a password.

I assume you do not use Pine to log on to that host, do you?
You may not need this for some shell, but Pine may not use the same mechanism.

>why can't this scheme be extended to multiple hosts.
>Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears to me your sketch is not valid.

Why does it appear to you that way?
I think you are missing something.

"Give me an authentication scheme without passwords
 and I'll send you a mail - from your own account."

Sven

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Nov 1995 16:05:33 GMT

[email-masked] (Feico de Boer) writes:
>Specify multiple imap in-boxes with different user-id's.  [...]

No.

Here's the sketch of a proof:

Assume it was posssible.
You start PINE with user id "uid1" on inbox "inbox1".
Now you switch to inbox2 which belongs to uid2. 
PINE now must be able to update "inbox2"
How should PINE get permissions of uid2?
Now, if PINE was able to change it's permissions simply by an entry
in the setup file then I'd define this:

	INCOMING xxx [email-masked]}inbox

I'm sure I'd have lots of fun.  :-)

But we don't want any fun on the Internet, now, would we?
Internet means serious business.
That's why PINE probably doesn't have that feature.

QED.

Sven

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From: Nico van der Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 02:43:26 +0100 (CEST)

>         INCOMING other_user [email-masked]}inbox

Did you think about aliasing those users to your own account ?

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From: Jesse Aaron Safir <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:01:51 -0500 (EST)

> >Specify multiple imap in-boxes with different user-id's.  [...]

solution: try to use the same userid across all your accounts :)

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From: [email-masked] (Feico de Boer)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:25:55 GMT

I can already log in to one host but I do need permissions and a password,
why can't this scheme be extended to multiple hosts. Maybe I'm missing some-
thing, but it appears to me your sketch is not valid.

Greets,

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