Subject: pine.info and pine.conf

From: Hong Tian <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:28:50 -0500

Hi,

Our Dept. has a Windows 2000 Mail Server. I try to install Pine 
on Unix (Solaris 8) workstations. All these Unix users are still 
supported by this Windows 2000 Mail Server.

Now I have some questions:

(1) Why can I send email to other users, but I can't receive email
from other users? For a test, I send the email to myself, but I
still can't receive it?

(2) I downloaded the binary codes of pine-bin.sun58 and imapd-bin.sun58.
Where can I find the files of pine.info, pine.conf, and pine.conf.fixed?

Thanks,
Hong

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:16:31 -0500 (EST)

> from other users? For a test, I send the email to myself, but I

What is your inbox set to? My guess is that the default is the local
mail spool file. Since your mail server is the Exchange Server, you
should try to access that via IMAP or POP.

(M)ain (S)etup (C)onfig
    inbox-path = {your.exchange.server}

If your user name is different on the Unix boxes than the exchange
server, then change the server definition to

    {your.exchange.server/user=xyzzy}

where xyzzy is your login name on the Exchange server.

> Where can I find the files of pine.info, pine.conf, and

pine.conf and pine.conf.fixed contain global options for all users.
pine.conf is overrideable, while pine.conf.fixed is not.

pine.info is optional. It should contain text that tells people to
contact the local support team for help. If it doesn't exist, it won't
harm anything.

For further info on the first two files, take a look at the tech-notes
for Pine configuration:

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

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From: Arun Prabhakaran <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:23:33 -0500 (GMT)

hi,

To get pine.conf type:

pine -conf > pine.conf

and u will get a fresh pine.conf file.

for more info try:

pine --help

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:16:14 -0500 (EST)

> and u will get a fresh pine.conf file.

Yes, but the output of pine.conf is overkill. There is a whole bunch of
empty definitions which could be left out, and other unnecessary verbage
totalling about 16kB. With just the options I need it it for my site,
the pine.conf file is 195 bytes.

Pine needs to parse these files at startup. Why slow it down?