Subject: Problem with PC Pine

From: "Prof. Dr. Ossama Haggag" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 02:19:52 +0300

Dear Sirs:

I have just downloaded pc-pine. When I try to use it with my windows95 
TCP/IP stack I always get the message : "cannot connect to server". I 
have supplied the necessary configuration information for my SMTP 
server. I didn't find an option in the pine configuration for my mail 
server password. Could that be the reason why pine cannot connect?

Please, help
-- 
Yours Truly,

Dr. Ossama Haggag
Prof. of Electrical Engrg.
Faculty of Engineering
Cairo University
E-mail : [email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:13:43 +0100 (BST)

You're not clear in your message whether you get this message when you:

a) Try and start Pine/open a mail folder to read
	or
b) Try to send a message after composing it.

Only the latter makes use of SMTP; the former uses a protocol called
"IMAP".  Thus you must have access to an IMAP server running (usually on
port 143) of one of your mainframe computers (typically the mail server).

The IMAP server software (imapd) is available for a number of computers
from the same place as Pine: ftp.cac.washington.edu.  (Indeed, the imapd
source code is actually included within the Pine source code distribution
kit.)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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