Subject: Problems with 3.95

From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:50:38 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

I recently transfered overseas and (unfortunately) I now
manage a network of HP/UX 9.0.3 systems.  So, I downloaded
my favorite mail reader (precompiled for hpux9) and tried to
set up an imap connection back to NJ.  I was running Solaris
2.5 there with pine 3.94 (and associated 3.94 thingies).  I
had an imap connection set up fro home there and it worked
great (pine 3.94 client on Debian linux 1.1 over ppp).
However, the HP version kept prompting me for a passwd
everytime I did anything.  Usually this would only happen
once.  So I took the advise of another from this list and
canged the host name to the IP address, but no improvement.
I then decided to sync up the pine versions, so I upgraded
the Solaris machine to pine3.95 (and impad, etc), butthis
made things worse.  Now the HP tries to connect but never
comes back from that.  The bar just keeps twirling.
I'm now telnetting into the solaris machine from here, which
works OK, but I'd rather have a local editing session and
only have to deal with slow connectivity for folder
management, etc.  We have a 256kb connection, which is very
usable normally.  I need to get this working somewhat
reliably or I'll never be able to sell imap as a remote mail
server solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Richard G. Roberto
[email-masked]
011-81-3-3437-7810 - Tokyo, Japan

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:16:17 -0700 (PDT)

Richard,
First thought: if the rsh to the imap server times out, it will
prompt for passwd, so maybe the rsh to the server is failing.

You can try to invoke the remote imapd manually and see what happens... 
The syntax is:  rsh host-name /etc/rimapd

-teg

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From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 02:57:33 -0400 (EDT)

> The syntax is:  rsh host-name /etc/rimapd

Well, this seems to work, but I don't know how pine handles
the fact that my username is different.  It was connecting
before though.  As far as timing out goes, I think that's
unlikely since my Debian system was working fine with pine
as an imap client of the same Solaris machine just last week
in the US over a 28.8 modem line running PPP.  That was much
slower than what I have here.

tkhp1:roberto:~:135$ rsh tiberius -l richr /etc/rimapd
* PREAUTH tiberius IMAP2bis Service 7.8(100) at Fri, 13 Sep
1996 02:48:53 -0400 (EDT)

I just did a ^D to get out of this :-(

Thanks again for any help.  By the way, I tried stripping
the binaries (on both sides) but it had no effect.  I don't
have anything like trace or truss on this HP/UX
unfortunately.

Thanks

Richard G. Roberto
[email-masked]

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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:44:16 +0200 (METDST)

> the fact that my username is different.  It was connecting

3.95 uses the parameter described bellow. It may help you.

Regards, V. S.

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:37:36 +0200 (METDST)
> From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
> To: David Candlin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: The Pine Discussion List <[email-masked]>,
>     "Bc. Vladimír Solnický" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: pine 3.95 and IMAP
> 
> On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David Candlin wrote:
> 
> > Both sites recently upgraded from pine 3.91 to pine 3.95. Now, when I
> > access my mail from CERN, the IMAP connection is dropped (by the client, I
> > believe, from the pine-debug file) at certain defined points. The result
> > is that I have to provide my login name and password each time I need a
> > buffer to compose a message, and twice when I complete the message -- once
> > to send it, and again to write it to sent-mail. There is no problem in
> > reading messages.
> 
> Change the definition of your INBOX and folder collections (of everything
> what is remote) so they look like
> 
> {bla.bla.bla.edinburg.uk/user=imapuser}INBOX,
> 
> where imapuser is your username ay Edinburg and INBOX (in case of folder
> collections) is replaced by the name of he folder collection, etc.
> 
> It should help.
> 
> Regards, V. S.

Vladimír Solnický, ÚTIA AV ČR, Pod vodárenskou věží 4,
CZ 182 08 Praha 8-Libeň, +42 2 6605/2364, telefax: +42 2 6884677,
[email-masked], http://www.utia.cas.cz/vs/vs-home-cz.html