Subject: specifying login name for remote folder

From: Jungshik Shin <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Sep 1996 09:46:40 -0400

I'm wondering if there's any way to specify 'user-name'(login name)
when defining remote folder/folder-collection. I've got a few
accounts on different machines with different login-name and
Pine prompts me for login-name with default set to local
login name of mine when I try to access remote folder/folder
collection on hosts where I have login name different than
local login name. In case it's not possible as of Pine 3.95,
I suggest following scheme for remote folder/folder collection
definition.

 [email-masked]}inbox
 [email-masked]}dir/[]

  Of course, password should not be displayed literally
(instead, it should be displayed as "****") and need to
be stored encrypted. Well, I guess most of use can type password everytime
when accessing remote folder(s), so that 'password' in
folder specfication is not as necessary as login-name
specification if security could be compromised with
password. 

  Another question/suggestion is if there's any way to
avoid entering login/password when I press 'L'(Folder
List) from the main menu. Pine 3.95 prompts me for
login name/password whenever I press L with remote
folder/folder collection defined in folder list even if
I just wanna see the local folder list. I found turning off
'expanded folder collection view'  does the job(i.e.
it doesn't ask for login/password when pressing L
and ask for them only when I expand a remote folder collection).
If that's the only way, I propose next version of Pine
offer a way to turn 'expanded view of folder collection'
on and off per folder collection basis so that I can
turn off that for remote folder collection by default
and would be prompted for login/password when I expand
remote folder collection. 

    Jungshik Shin

   I would be greatly obliged to Pine team if  this would be considered 
carefully and reflected in next release of Pine.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:41:46 -0700

>  [email-masked]}dir/[]

The definition are actually

	{remote.host.somewhere.net/user=loginname}INBOX
	{remote.host.somewhere.net/user=loginname}dir/[]

The password cannot be specified.  This works in Pine 3.92 and later. 

> and ask for them only when I expand a remote folder collection).

Pine is supposed to keep the last password you used for each server
for the duration of a session.  We will investigate this further...

> remote folder collection. 

We'll keep this in mind!

> carefully and reflected in next release of Pine.

--DLM

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4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:58:48 -0500 (CDT)

What is the appropriate syntax for a remote news collection via nntp when a
different user name must be specified?

I had no luck with *{news.remote.host/nntp/user=login}[] on the news
collections line, with a 2nd machine, news.remote.host, specified on the nntp
line. 

>From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:41:46 -0700

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:03:20 -0700 (PDT)

> collections line, with a 2nd machine, news.remote.host, specified on the nntp

Pine 3.95 does not currently have that capability, but Pine 4.0 will.

--DLM