Subject: Pine Freezes During Network Downtime

From: Steven C King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 17:29:09 -0400

This happened a few days ago, and neither I or my ISP have no idea what
causes it.  Our network at cmr.fsu.edu was isolated from the outside world
for awhile.  Though we couldn't telnet/ftp/etc. out from our site,
everything still worked.  However, Pine decides to freeze when sending a
message, even if it's to a user on our site.  Elm continued to work fine,
and it put messages that were to be sent out from our site into a queue,
which would deliver them later once the network was re-establishedl;
Messages that were sent to users locally were delivered immediately.  As
for Pine......FREEZE!  ????????  Could someone tell me why this is
the case?  Is this a Pine configuration that needs to be set?

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:47:43 -0500 (CDT)

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> the case?  Is this a Pine configuration that needs to be set?

# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.
smtp-server=

This is just a stab in the dark, but does the above field (from .pinerc) have
anything defined in it?  If so, that might be the problem...  Try leaving it
blank, then it'll use sendmail which will queue the message for delivery
when the network comes back up.

  Jason

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