Subject: repeated password requests (pine 4.05)

From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:19:17 +0100 (BST)

I have had a complaint from someone using Pine4.05 on linux against a
multi-host IMAP4 system, that if he gets different hosts as the result
of different DNS requests (say for INBOX and a folder-collection) then
he is asked for his password more than once.

Specifically, he is accessing imap.hermes.x.y.z
the DNS says that imap.hermes is actually 2 systems red.p.y.z and
green.p.y.z; first access is to red; second to green; then he needs to
give the password to permit access to green even though both are the
same overwall system under the cover of imap.hermes.

Anyone experienced this?

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From: Jan Kalin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:41:16 +0200

> same overwall system under the cover of imap.hermes.

Not exactly this, but something similar. My .pinerc has mail.zag.si (one
of the aliases for the mail server) listed as the mail server, but the
password prompt is for gluon.zag.si (the 'real' name).

A simple solution would be to just specify either red... or green... as
the mail server (and of course the location of folder collections), but
that's probably not what you want...

Cheers,
Jan

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:58:05 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jan Kalin wrote:

:>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Barry Landy wrote:
:>
:>> I have had a complaint from someone using Pine4.05 on linux against a
:>> multi-host IMAP4 system, that if he gets different hosts as the result
:>> of different DNS requests (say for INBOX and a folder-collection) then
:>> he is asked for his password more than once.
:>> 
:>> Specifically, he is accessing imap.hermes.x.y.z
:>> the DNS says that imap.hermes is actually 2 systems red.p.y.z and
:>> green.p.y.z; first access is to red; second to green; then he needs to
:>> give the password to permit access to green even though both are the
:>> same overwall system under the cover of imap.hermes.
:>> 
:>> Anyone experienced this?
:>
:>Not exactly this, but something similar. My .pinerc has mail.zag.si (one
:>of the aliases for the mail server) listed as the mail server, but the
:>password prompt is for gluon.zag.si (the 'real' name).
:>
:>A simple solution would be to just specify either red... or green... as
:>the mail server (and of course the location of folder collections), but
:>that's probably not what you want...

no, and it is (for very good reasons) forbidden locally (indeed, I hold
the rules...!) - of course, we upgrade the machines regularly and it is
pften necessary to change the names to get a transparent upgrade.