Subject: NT Pine and reading Unix mail spool files. [Semi-Repost]

From: [email-masked] (Nir Soffer)
Date: 9 Jun 1997 20:04:04 GMT

Howdy again,

I have obtained the version of Pine for Windows NT - yet that version of
Pine requires IMAP (And/or POP? Doesn't matter.). As we don't currently
have an IMAP server (nor a POP server for that matter.) and we are not
planning to use IMAP in the forseeable future (We'll be moving to One
Time password cards soon, so that would make POP nearly useless (Having
to type the keycode every 5 minutes isn't very useful.), and we don't want
to run an IMAP server until all the security implications are resolved.).

We have thought about cross mounting the Unix mail directory over a Samba
share and having pine read M:\[username] (Or whatever, you ofcourse get my
point.) as a unix mailfile.

However, I have yet to discover the option to let Pine for NT accept
'M:\[username]' as an INBOX, as it requires an IMAP folder as that
parameter.

I have a hard time to believe that whoever developed Pine and ported it
to NT disabled the rather useful future that is used heavily in Unix
machines.

So in short - this is my question : Is there a way to scratch IMAP support
and use simple files as folders? Don't tell me that's impossible, it
simply doesn't make sense.

I have reviewed the FAQ's and found no evidence for an answer, if it is
written in one somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer to it.

Thanks in Advance,
Nir
CS Institute, HUJI

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:22:31 -0700 (PDT)

On 9 Jun 1997, Nir Soffer wrote:

> and we don't want

What security implications do you have in mind?

(I'm aware of a CERT advisory that implied there were problems with the
protocol, but this is incorrect, the flaws were in some server
implementations...  and UW's code was fixed before we notified CERT.) 

-teg

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From: Nir Soffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:29:37 +0300 (IDT)

Well - for starters - we're moving into a one time password scheme, and if
I'm not mistaken, authentication is required every time one reads mail.
This would make it a hassle for the users to read mail. It seems plausible
to have a solution to read and write unix mail spool files (Berkeley mail
files as you call them, I believe) in NT if it's quite a default feature
in Unix pine.

Please Cc: to me, I'm not registered to this mailing list, I think. :)

Regards,
Nir.

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