Subject: using imap to access remote mailbox with different account name

From: [email-masked] (Nirad Sharma)
Date: 1 Sep 1996 23:40:32 GMT

I wish to use pine (3.91, linux) to access a mailbox on a remote host using
imap but the mailbox is for myself under a different username.  How do I
appropriately specify this for the inbox-path variable ?

Nirad.
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:52:16 -0700

You can't with Pine 3.91.  In Pine 3.95, use something like

	inbox-path={server.domain/user=foo}INBOX

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On 1 Sep 1996, Nirad Sharma wrote:

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> Subject: using imap to access remote mailbox with different account name
> Date: 1 Sep 1996 23:40:32 GMT
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From: "David A. Hollman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:21:38 -0400

> 	inbox-path={server.domain/user=foo}INBOX

Is there a way to also specify the password on that line? ie,
inbox-path={mail.server/user=foo/password=bar)INBOX ?

Mercy buckets

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:48:15 +0200

> inbox-path={mail.server/user=foo/password=bar)INBOX ?

    Good Lord, why would you want to do this?  You might as well go ahead
and write your password on a post-it note and leave it on your monitor.
Or better, on a public terminal somewhere (don't forget your account name
and machine name too).

    The only use I could see for this (and I have wanted it for this
reason) is for anonymous IMAP login, specified as /user=anonymous and you
enter your e-mail address as password.  Otherwise, anyone could read your
password on the other system from your pinerc file.  You don't want that,
do you?

Barry Bouwsma  <[email-masked]>

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From: Gareth Boden <[email-masked]>
Date: 05 Sep 1996 16:40:04 +0100

> password on the other system from your pinerc file.  You don't want that,

Surely you could deny read access to the file for other users? Or are we 
talking about a shared DOS machine here?

Gareth

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