Subject: Pine & Cyrus IMAP

From: "Administrator" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:04:52 -0400

I am running a Cyrus IMAP Server and am attempting to run Pine with this
configuration.  My mail is stored in /var/spool/imap/user/NAME.  The
permissions on this directory structure are owned by cyrus, and the
group is root, but root has no permissions on the directory structure.
I am successfully using Microsoft Outlook, and a Webmail client to
connect to read my mail, but I would also like to be able to read my
mail using pine.  It is faithful, and fast.  I was unable to connect to
the imap server until I tried as root.  Then I was able to connect to
any account by using the username and password.  Is there a way to
configure normal users to read mail.  Also when I did connect as root to
the IMAP server every time I wanted to change a directory it would ask
for my password again.  Is there a way to configure pine so that my
password does not need to be entered in order to perform every command.
I am running a Debian box and have download the precompiled pine bin
from the ftp server.  Thank you for all your help and time.

Michael Weber

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From: Marco Colombo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:30:42 +0200 (CEST)

> from the ftp server.  Thank you for all your help and time.

I've been using Pine and Cyrus IMAPD for years, and never encountered
the problems you mention...

$ pine -v
Pine 4.33 built Sat Mar 31 06:57:36 EST 2001 on porky.devel.redhat.com

Here's some lines from my .pinerc:

inbox-path={imap/ssl}INBOX

folder-collections=Mail/[],
        {imap/ssl}INBOX.[]

I can't remenber of ANY uncommon setting, Pine-side.

As I wild guess, I think you're having troubles with SASL. Pine tries
to use the CRAM-MD5 SASL mechanism, if available, and it probably
tries and uses the sasldb file on the server. Depending on the server
configuration, you may get unexpected results. So try and turn that
mech off, maybe just delete (or move away) the pluging (should be
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.so.* with default paths). MS OutLook uses
PLAIN, AFAIK.

.TM.
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