Subject: Re: your mail

From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 21:34:13 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

i think the logon screen after starting the screen should be logged into,
or else the program closes, so that users cannot view saved messages.

aaron

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From: Michael Thomas Cope <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:40:32 -0700 (PDT)

> or else the program closes, so that users cannot view saved messages.
Can you be more specific?
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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96
E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:13:42 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

you're right sorry

i meant the logon screen when starting pine should be correctly logged
onto (i.e. given the correct username password combination) or else the
program closes, so that no one else can view saved messages.

clear enough
aaron

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From: Michael Thomas Cope <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:21:20 -0700 (PDT)

> program closes, so that no one else can view saved messages.
I assume you are talking about PC-Pine because in Unix there is no
effective way to limit access to a user's mailbox from the user's shell
(the user could always just read the file with a different mailer or cat)
and a user should never leave a login session unlocked.
	The same is also true of PC files in a standard Win95 setup,
any user can read any file.  AFAIK the only reasonably secure way of
keeping files secret in a Windows environment is to use NT or store the
files on a separate computer (e.g. Netware).  There may be a way to do
this in Windows95 as well but certainly it would involve separate logins
for each user using the system.  Encrypting the mailbox between sessions
would be a reasonable solution and it would perhaps be nice if Pine
offered this as an option.  It would also be nice if Pine offered support
for compressed mailboxes.  Heck there's a lot of things that would be nice
to have in Pine, you have the source code...happy hacking.

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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96 
E-mail:[email-masked]

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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:39:19 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

right, i'ms sorry about forgetting to tell you that it was pc-pine.  but
i think it would make it quite as easy to get to peoples old mail.
encryption would be a very cool option too.