Subject: Pine & sendmail

From: ruben <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:46:36 -0700 (MST)

Hi, 
	We are trying to use PINE 3.96 on a box Running AIX 4.2.1.  The
executable we have was precompiled for AIX at UCLA.
  
PROBLEM:  when sending a new message the following message appears:

   "[Sending mail |     0%   |]"

and Pine just sites there with the percentage never changing from zero.
We end up having to kill the Pine session.

NOTE:  We are able to send messages with the "mail" and "mailx" commands.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:09:35 +0800 (GMT)

> We end up having to kill the Pine session.

I've seen this at times...forgot the exact conditions.  The problem had to
do with which options pine was using when it called sendmail.

To "workaround" the problem rather than change the options and recompile
I simply set:

smtp-server =

to the fully qualified name of the local host.

in my .pinerc file.  In the case where you are servicing a large community 
it would be advisable to put that information in the system wide pinerc
file.

Regards,
Ed

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From: SandraB <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:43:27 -0500

Hi Ruben,

This question has been asked in the past and since my company will eventually
upgrade to AIX 4.2 I saved the replies.

I haven't tried them but here they are:

Reply #1:
	We fixed the problem by loading the sendmail program from AIX 4.1
	in stead of the one included with 4.2

Reply #2:

	I had the same problem, you can fix trhe problem addinng the next line
	to the pine.conf.fixed file in /usr/local/lib directory.
	
	sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t

Have fun,

Sandra