Subject: Pine (3.93) doing RSH, not IMAP?

From: [email-masked] (Gerald Pfeifer)
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 17:46:22 GMT

Pointing Windows Pine 3.93 to a remote folder at my ISP works fine
from our departments subnet using the "G" command and the folder
location "{ping.at}INBOX".

The same procedure on SunOS 4.1.3 with the very same folder location
causes Pine 3.93 (and below) to "wait forever and a day".

That left me somewhat clueless until my ISP e-mailed my postmaster
complaining about a user repeatedly trying to log into his systems
using rsh, which he does not allow because of security problems.

I don't believe that IMAP requires rsh, does it? - So why does
something work from a PC and not from a Sun on the same subnet when
both use the same version of Pine?

Any hints would be really appreciated,
Gerald
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 13:10:01 -0700

By default, Unix Pine trys to open a pre-authenticated connection via
rsh before trying port 143.  You can tell Pine to go straight to port
143 by specifically designating the port, e.g. "{ping.at:143}INBOX"

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On Mon, 6 May 1996, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

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