Subject: Re: Plans to put a password cache in pine?

From: [email-masked] (Andy Behrens)
Date: 30 Oct 1996 21:25:45 GMT

David Ross ([email-masked]) wrote:
>      The header says it all...  Right now, if your sysadmin hasn't set
> up rimapd correctly, you are screwed.  I have to type my login and 
> password in every few seconds!  I don't mind doing once per session,
> but the way things are set up now is a real pain.  If you are reading
> this and are a pine developer, please do something!  =)  Thank you!

You might want to tell Pine that it shouldn't even try rimapd, but
should go directly to imap.  You can do that by adding the port number
afer the hostname, for example

	inbox-path={imap5.u.example.edu:143}INBOX

But wouldn't it be better to have your sysadmin fix the rimapd problem,
so that other people could use Pine also?

Andy

-- 
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.        (Anne Herbert)

Andy Behrens			       <[email-masked]>
Burlington Coat Factory, Schoolhouse Lane, Etna, N.H. 03750

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From: [email-masked] (David Andrew Ross)
Date: 31 Oct 1996 01:41:06 GMT

: {mailhost.whatever.edu/user=snakey}INBOX

: The "user=snakey" makes pine understand that you want to use the same
: account every time you open the folder, and you only need to give the
: password once per session.

I tried this, and it does help a lot, but...  I have multiple incoming
folders, and so when I go to the folder list or try to "tab" to the
next incoming folder, pine asks me again for my password.  Ideas?

Dave

: Greetings,
: Ørjan.

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David Ross
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From: [email-masked] (David Andrew Ross)
Date: 1 Nov 1996 15:23:34 GMT

Problem solved...  I realized that the name of my imap server really
resolves to one of two machines to balance the load.  I just picked
one of the two and now I only have to log in once per session!  

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David Ross
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (David Andrew Ross)
Date: 1 Nov 1996 13:29:20 GMT

Orjan Johansen ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Ideas.. make sure you use the above format for every incoming folder.
: After all, pine could think you have more than one account on a single
: machine.

All accounts are on the same machine, so maybe I'm just doing something
wrong.  Actually, I believe it worked when I set it up for just two
incoming folders (the INBOX plus a secondary incoming folder), but then
it started asking me passwords again after I added more.

: Greetings,
: Ørjan.

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David Ross
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:44:17 -0800 (PST)

> one of the two and now I only have to log in once per session!  

Hmmm...  How do both machines get to your folders?  If they access
them via NFS, you are vulnerable to locking failures, at least with
the UW imapd.  This could lead to folders getting corrupted.  It is
safer and more efficient to have imapd running on the server that
physically stores the data.  I wouldn't be suprized if the savings in
NFS overhead completely offsets the extra imapd load of putting
everything on one server.... 

--DLM

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