Subject: prompted for uname/password over and over again

From: Visar Nimani <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:44:36 -0700

Hi to all of you and thanks for taking a look at my problem.  I run
pine 4.10 on solaris; using IMAP.
  My problem is that during a single pine session, I have to enter my
username/password multiple times.  Every time I change folders or ask
for my folder listing from the IMAP server, pine asks me for my user
name and password all over again.  Is there any way to have pine
memorize the info  during a session (i.e. I start pine, I enter
username and password, and then am not asked for the info again until
I quit and
start pine again)?
  Also, as part of my setup I was trying to enter my correct username
to the IMAP server  (i.e. using the following syntax --
{<imap-server>:<portnumber>/user=<username>/service=<service>}).
Unfortunately my username (vnimani/mail09) contains a "/" which seems
to confuse pine.  Do you buy any chance know a workaround?
  Well, to anyone that can help me or that tried to help, my sincere
thanks.

Visar Nimani

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:11:04 -0700 (PDT)

Have you tried using the \/ key combination?  I can't test it, but I would
suspect that might work.  Alternately, you might try surrounding the
username with quotes...

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From: Visar Nimani <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:48:47 -0700

Scott, thanks for the suggestions.  I did try them but no luck.  I even
tried them in combination and they did not work.
  Do you by any chance have any suggestions related to the first part of my
initial question -- how to make pine remember the authentication information
during the current session.  See, that is my biggest problem -- having to
authenticate over and over again during a single pine session.
  Scott, once again thank you.

Visar

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:29:10 -0400 (EDT)

> to confuse pine.  Do you buy any chance know a workaround?

I've also been through this constant prompting on a Unix system and
it's very painful. Here are some possibilities for making the
situation a little better.

1] Recompile Pine so that your password is stored in the filed defined
   by PASSFILE. This is described at:

   http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes.4.10/installation.html

2] Figure out how to get your user name into your server specification
   (I know you're trying to do this!) so that you at least won't be
   prompted for your user name. If you are using IMAP and the port
   number is 143, you don't need to specify those (because those
   are the default). All you need to specify is:

    {your.imap.server/user=your-user-name}

   Maybe try all kinds of quotes, e.g.:

    {your.imap.server/user="vnimani/mail09"}
    {your.imap.server/user='vnimani/mail09'}
    {your.imap.server/user=`vnimani/mail09`}

   Or double and triple slashes:

    {your.imap.server/user=vnimani//mail09}
    {your.imap.server/user=vnimani///mail09}

   Or try just vnimani as your user name. 

   Or ask your admins if they know of a solution or can give you
   a better user name.
 
3] Set up Pine so that as many files as possible are local rather than 
   on the IMAP server. This includes your address book, your postponed
   folder, your default fcc and saved folders, etc. etc.

Let us know what the solution to this is.

Good luck,
Nancy

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:56:37 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

I had that problem when I tried to use two different e-mail accounts from
the same instance of Pine.  They had different user names, so it would
never remember which user name to use.  Once I stuck a /user=leibrand on
all the appropriate servers and /user=sleib on all the others, it started
remembering everything.

Are you setting it up to use more than one account?  Or is your user name
on your e-mail account different than your logon name on the machine
you're running Pine from?  If so, you'll need to figure out how to get the
/user= tag to work...

Hope that helps,

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:59:24 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

>    http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes.4.10/installation.html

You can try it, but I don't think this will help.  I tried using pine.pwd
in PC-Pine when using multiple user names (multiple mail servers) and it
still didn't save until I put the /user= flag in.

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