Subject: Re: Will Pine remember my IMAP password?

From: Rick Byers <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:25:20 -0500 (EST)

Not as far as I know, but you can set it up to access imap using rsh.
Thats what I did.  You'll have to get the people that administer the
server to make some changes though...

You just need a symlink in /etc/rimapd to the actually imapd binary.  Then
setup your .rhosts for normal rlogin operation.  Pine will automatically
rsh rimapd (no password neceasry if setup properly), if it can.  The only
problem I found with that is it I sometimes get timeouts, and it reverts
to normal imap mode.  There is more on this in the documentation...

Hope this helps,
		Rick

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:

> Is there any way to configure UNIX Pine to remember my IMAP password so
> that I don't have to type it in each time I start-up Pine?
> 
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:23:33 -0800

On 25 Feb 1997, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, SandraB wrote:
> [...]
> >In order to get around your problem, your system administrator (you?) has to 
> >put you in a "trusted user" file on the system such as "/etc/hosts.equiv".
> >The users listed in that file are not required to type in their password
> >everytime they start pine.
> >
> >(BTW, hosts.equiv is what we use on the AIX flavor of Unix, I'm sure about
> >the exact name on other Unix systems).
> 
> Sounds like you're using "rimap" to retreive mail with IMAP, rather
> than accessing the IMAP server directly.  When using "rimap", Pine
> will attempt to connect to your account on the server using rsh, then
> invoke rimap from there.  If the r-services are set-up and your account
> information is valid on the server end, the method you describe will
> work; unfortunately, our environment isn't secure enough to allow use
> of the r-services, so that's not an option.
> 

We have some groups using SSL to improve the authentication of the
r-services, and provide encrypted sessions as well.  I would be
interested to hear any horror (or success :-) stories with this
approach.

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