Subject: Re: Pine 3.92 and Linux problems

From: [email-masked] (Christopher Morrone)
Date: 21 Mar 1996 06:20:43 GMT

Ashok Aiyar ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Has anyone been able to successfully run Pine 3.92 under Linux?

You could just get the bin instead of compiling it.  The bin's are ELF, 
and work fine for me (kernel 1.3.68).  Of course if you have special 
options you need to compile in, I haven't been much help...

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From: [email-masked] (Ashok Aiyar)
Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:38:35 GMT

>options you need to compile in, I haven't been much help...

The precompiled Pine binary does the exact same thing.  The problems
are not unique to my system, but seem to occur on other systems
running sendmail-8.7.x.  I am going to test the new Pine with
Sendmail-8.6.x next ......

Ashok
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From: [email-masked] (Ashok Aiyar)
Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:32:13 GMT

Has anyone been able to successfully run Pine 3.92 under Linux?
Pine 3.92 seems to compile fine on my computers, but I am unable
to send mail - it quits with an error.  The same thing happens 
when I try the precompiled 3.92 binaries available on
ftp.cac.washington.edu

The systems I have tried are:

kernel-1.3.70
gcc 2.7.0
libc 5.0.9
sendmail 8.7.5

and

kernel 1.2.13
gcc 2.7.2
libc 5.2.18
sendmail 8.7.3

In both cases I created new global pine configurations using 
(pine -conf >/usr/local/lib/pine.conf), and tried Pine with and 
without the default global configuration.

In contrast Pine 3.91 works fine on both of these systems that 
I have tried it on.  

Any help would be much appreciated!

Ashok

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From: Hynek Med <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:16:39 +0100

> Sendmail-8.6.x next ......

I have same problems on sendmail 8.6.12, kernel 1.2.13, both with the
pre-compiled and myself-compiled version, on both Linuxes I tried. It
cannot send mail, because of unability to access my sent-mail folder, if I
do a "list folders" it just says: 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Folder-collection <mail/[]>  ** Default for Saves **                     (Local)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             [ ** Empty List **  Select Here to Try Re-Expanding ]

Adding folders is no help. (I vaguely remember pine saying something like
"can't create mail/sent-mail, already exists - can this be a cause? 
Perhaps, but it behaves the same with a new user without mail
subdirectory..) Of course I cannot access my saved-messages, either. It
also behaves weird with two news-collections of mine.. On the other hand,
remote folder collections work well. 

So? 

Hynek

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From: Ezra Van Everbroeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 23:01:42 +0100

On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Hynek Med wrote:

> pre-compiled and myself-compiled version, on both Linuxes I tried.

I am afraid that I don't know what's causing your problems, but Pine 3.92
(self-compiled on this 1.2.13 machine) works fine with my sendmail 8.7.5.
Have you checked the permissions of the relevant files and directories? Or
tried increasing the debugging level of sendmail?

Good luck,

Ezra

Ezra Van Everbroeck  -  -  Centre for Computational Linguistics
1972 - - Mbuji-Mayi - -- - [email-masked] - K.U.Leuven

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From: Clive Messer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 04:06:30 +0000 (GMT)

> tried increasing the debugging level of sendmail?

It's not a problem with permissions. ;-)

The following from Linux 1.3.77, libc-5.3.7, sendmail-8.6.5 ......

Mar 25 03:33:38 epos sendmail[3180]: DAA03180: from=root, size=426,
class=0, pri=426, nrcpts=0,
msgid=<[email-masked]>,
relay=root@localhost
Mar 25 03:33:38 epos sendmail[3180]: DAA03180: DAB03180: postmaster
notify: root... Recipient names must be specified
Mar 25 03:33:38 epos sendmail[3182]: DAB03180: to=root, delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent

03165 >>> 220 epos.easynet.co.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.3; Mon, 25 Mar
1996 03:31:44 GMT
03165 <<< HELO epos.easynet.co.uk
03165 >>> 250 epos.easynet.co.uk Hello [email-masked]
[193.131.249.152], pleased to meet you
03165 <<< RSET
03165 >>> 250 Reset state
03165 <<< MAIL FROM:<[email-masked]>
03167 >>> 250 <[email-masked]>... Sender ok
03167 <<< [EOF]
03167 >>> 421 epos.easynet.co.uk Lost input channel from
[email-masked] [193.131.249.152]

I'm afraid my C skills are not upto much.
Anyone care to look at the code ????

Clive.
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<[email-masked]>   |    Jim Morrison.

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From: Ezra Van Everbroeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:17:43 +0100 (GMT+0100)

> The following from Linux 1.3.77, libc-5.3.7, sendmail-8.6.5 ......

[snip]

I don't know whether this will also solve your problem, but I got another
reply which says:

From: Ashok Aiyar <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Pine 3.92 and Linux problems

|Thank you for your message.  I sat down and debugged the sendmail
|session ... and figured it out.  I do not run stock sendmail, but
|a slightly modified version that does telnet detects (telnet to
|ebv.oncology.wisc.edu, port 25 to see what I mean), and had to
|modify my code marginally.  Since Pine 3.91 sends mail by using
|"sendmail -t -oi -oem", while Pine 3.92 uses "sendmail -bs -odb -oem",
|this problem manifested only with Pine 3.92.

You don't happen to be running a modified version of sendmail as well?

Cheers,

Ezra

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From: Clive Messer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:55:00 +0000 (GMT)

> You don't happen to be running a modified version of sendmail as well?

No, it's not modified in any way.
I'd guess at a problem with pine and the beta libc I'm using resulting in
the premature EOF ?
It needs someone proficient in 'C' to debug it and unfortunately I'm not
that person. ;-)

Clive.

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:17:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (Clive Messer) writes:

This sounds like a sendmail problem to me (possibly an error in the
Mlocal definition in sendmail.cf).  Do you get the same behavior using
the Unix mail (or Mail) program?

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