Subject: Problems getting connected to mail server

From: [email-masked] (Ian V. Quickmire)
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 23:10:45 GMT

When attempting to connect to my mail server using Pine under Linux, I get
the following:

Can't connect to mail.sonetis.com,143: connection refused

Is this due to an invalid id/pw?

My id is the same for the mail server as it is for logging in to linux, the
same with the pw.

The other Q is how to identify my INBOX location.

The default for Pine was {server}inbox, which worked on my old ISP.

With my new isp, it doesn't work, my mail is stored at /usr2/mail/ianq.

Do I then just change the inbox-path to {server}/usr2/mail/ianq ??

This all works under other OSes, so I figure I must have a config problem.

Thanks in advance for any help ...

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Work: [email-masked]              Home: [email-masked]
WWW: http://www.sonetis.com/~ianq/      CIS: 74032,573
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:59:50 -0800 (PST)

It sounds like your new ISP doesn't support IMAP, the remote access
protocol that Pine uses.  You should ask them to...

In the meantime, a really poor substitute is to add /pop3 after the
hostname, since they almost surely support pop.  (There will be a bunch of
things that won't work this way, e.g. message flags can't be saved, and it
will be slower... but perhaps better than nothing.)

-teg