Subject: Re: Pine Questions

From: [email-masked] (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
Date: 30 Oct 1996 11:45:32 GMT

Frederick V. Heitkamp ([email-masked]) wrote:

Sorry about the previous post, my terminal emulation was
messed up.

My questions are:  How to you edit the subject line when posting
or replying to news?  Pine alwatys seems to put To: <username> 
in there for me.

How to I fix "rsh IMAP connection timed out" when connecting to
nntp server?
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:25:36 +0000 (GMT)

> or replying to news?  Pine alwatys seems to put To: <username> 

Ummm... I think you're confusing different screens here?

It is quite possible -- probable even -- that Pine is showing you "To:
username" in the Index screen (in the column you see the sender's name for
messages you receive from others).  This is quite separate from the
Subject text (which is at the right hand end of each entry's line in the
Index screen.

When you start a Reply I would be really surprised if you're getting
anything untoward; could I ask a silly question: have you tried it (as
against _assuming_ what will happen)?

> How to I fix "rsh IMAP connection timed out" when connecting to

This implies that you have got your Pine configured to use IMAP rather
than NNTP to read Usenet News from your news server.

First check that you have set a value for "nntp-server" in your Pine
Configuration Screen.  You will need this setting in order to be able to
_post_ articles to Usenet News.

Setting this also implicitly sets up a "news collection" configured to use
NNTP to the same server for news _reading_.  In most cases people just
need to set a value for nntp-server, and should leave the (related)_
news-collections variable _unset_.

>From the appearance of the error message I suspect that you have a value
set currently for news-collections.  Either unset this or, if you *really*
need it make sure it looks something like this:

	news-collections=*{news.your.site/nntp}[]

The important part is the "/nntp"; it is this that tells Pine to use NNTP
to connect to this server for news reading.  If you miss "/nntp" off then
Pine uses the IMAP protocol to try and read news instead.  If your news
server isn't running an IMAP daemon configured to serve the news then it
won't work for you!

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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