Subject: Restricted Pine

From: C Lance Moxley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:06:52 -0500

I need to set up a machine for anonymous pine use. The imap server
is on different machine. This "pine server" will be used mostly by
people with dumb vt100 type terminals through a dial-up server.

What I envision is a default userid that runs /usr/local/bin/pine
as it's login shell. I noticed that there are a couple of command
line options for pine (-a -nr) that, on the surface, seem to be
some kind of anonymous mode for pine. That's what I need, an anonymous
instance of pine. I'm working on a /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed
now that will probably go a long way. 

What I would like to know is, has anyone (U of Wash??) done 
something similar, and if so, could you share some tips of
what you did?

Thanks.

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C Lance Moxley                                     E-Mail: [email-masked]
University of Illinois                                FAX: 217 244-1279
Urbana - Champaign                  URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/clm

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From: C Lance Moxley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:25:50 -0500

On Thu, 9 May 1996, David L Miller wrote:

> What do you need from "anonymous pine" beyond the restrictions you can
> set with pine.conf.fixed?

I'm not sure what anonymous pine does. Where can I read more 
about what the -a and -nr options do?

What I want is a pine that does everything remotely. I want no
folders or incoming mail on the "pine server". I want everything
on the imap server. Very much like PC-Pine I guess. Of course
the users couldn't set or change any options.