Subject: Using imap via rsh/remsh ?

From: [email-masked] (Sven Goldt)
Date: 29 May 1996 10:19:59 GMT

Hello folks,

i wonder how i make pine3.93 use the rsh/remsh mechanism instead
of the non-authorized way with port 143.
I tried to execute 'remsh remotehost /etc/rimapd' and it works,
but pine always asks me for username and password. What's wrong ?
inbox-path is set to {remotehost.mydomain}inbox.

Greets, Sven

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 23:21:21 -0700

On 30 May 1996, Sven Goldt wrote:
> : Also, was the *FIRST* thing output "* PREAUTH"?  If any other characters
> : are output, rimap access will fail.
> goldt@somehost [1]% (~): remsh remotehost /etc/rimapd
> term: Undefined variable.
> * PREAUTH remotehost.bsb.badw-muenchen.de IMAP2bis Service 7.8(100) at Thu, 30 May 1996 09:11:54 +0200 (METDST)
> 
> So i wonder if this 'term: Undefined variable' is responsible for
> pine's misbehavior. Isn't this message coming from stderr ?

You found the cause of the problem.  That "term: Undefined variable" is
what's preventing rimap from working.  The most likely culprit is
something in a .cshrc or similar file.

It may have been "coming from stderr" on the server, but there's no
difference between stderr and stdout from the perspective of the rsh
client.

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