Subject: Pine 3.92 handles IMAP logins differently than 3.91.

From: "Michael H. Martel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:33:23 -0500 (EST)

Greetings!

I downloaded Pine 3.92 today and have been extremely impressed!  However I
have found something that is different, that I can't find mention of in
the documentation.

I did a build osf on my machine and go Pine compiled and running.  I
entered Pine and all worked well.  I pressed <TAB> to switch through my
folders, and it prompts me for my username and password on the first of 4
IMAP hosts.  Fine.  I enter them and it Pine dutifully checks my email on
those hosts.  Then it searches my local folders (Pine and Procmail make a
powerfull combination!) and returns me to my INBOX.  Great!

About 5 minutes later, I press <TAB> again, and Pine goes and prompts me
for my Username on two of the four IMAP servers.  Whoa.  3.91 always
remembered the Username and password for the session (until I exited
Pine).  Is this a feature of the new ability to have the .pinerc contain
the username automatically ?  Or is it just me ?

Thanks!

Michael

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:41:39 +0100

On 19 Mar 1996, "Michael H. Martel" wrote:

> Subject: Different UserNames on Different IMAP servers.

> I noticed in the Release notes it says that I can now have different
> usernames on different IMAP servers.  However I can't seem to get this to
> work.  I have my incoming folders setup as :
> 	{host.domain.com}INBOX,
> 	so on and so forth.
> How do I tell Pine what Username to use ?

The specification to use would be:

    {imap.host/user=name}

> Subject: Pine 3.92 handles IMAP logins differently than 3.91.

> for my Username on two of the four IMAP servers.

    You need to specify the usernames as outlined above for this to work.
This allows people to have multiple IMAP logins on the same host.

>  Whoa.  3.91 always
> Pine).

    This meant that as soon as you logged in as one user to the host, you
could not log in as another user on the same host without some
sophisticated hacks.  Now you can, at the expense of having to specify
your username in the .pinerc to keep it in memory.

Barry Bouwsma
Radio Praha