Subject: Problem with PC Pine 3.92

From: [email-masked] (Thom Hadley)
Date: 26 Mar 1996 04:13:58 GMT

Can anyone help me.  I am trying to run PC PINE and my IMAP server is 
returning "Can't connect to joshua 143 (Refused)"

Thanks in advance.

Thom Hadley
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:54:33 -0800 (PST)

On 21 Mar 1996, Thom Hadley wrote:

> This is most likely my stupidity but when I am using the PC-PINE 3.92 product
> under Windows95 and trying to connect to an AIX 3.2.5 box I get the following
> message vth.colostate.edu connection refused.  I have the inbox setting in the
> configuation file as: {cvmbs2.vetmed.colostate.edu}INBOX.  Can anyone help?
>

Host cvmbs2.vetmed.colostate.edu does not appear to be running an IMAP
server...

> returning "Can't connect to joshua 143 (Refused)"

Yup, that's the error message you get when the server doesn't have
IMAP configured.  You will need to convince your system administrator
to configure IMAP to run PC-Pine...

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From: [email-masked] (Aaron Ezekiel, CIRT - Univ. of NewMexico)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:40:00 GMT

[email-masked] (David L Miller) wrote:
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>to configure IMAP to run PC-Pine...

A related problem we had until someone had an extra cup of coffee one
morning was that, even after we had a big PC-Pine installation, the
Unix systems folk still expected everyone to be running Pine on Unix,
where an rsh was done to make the connection to our mail server,
rather than listening on port 143.

The result was that, even though the daemon to listen on port 143 was
turned ojn, it had been done manually and didn't amke it into the
standard places to automatically initiate on re-boot.  So each time
the mail server was downed, the port 143 listener wasn't there when it
came back up.  A good stiff cup of coffee and repeatedly fixing the
same problem enough times fixed this system problem.  It's really a
matter of the vantage point of the sys admins. 
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University of New Mexico
2701 Campus Blvd., #138		Albuquerque, NM  87131
ph: 505-277-8052		email: [email-masked]
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