Subject: RE: pine.info and pine.conf

From: Hong Tian <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:31:49 -0500

Gopi,

(1) It works after setting up inbox-path correctly.

(2) After running pine command, a file named .pinerc created
for each user automatically. I can't find pine.info in PINE package.
Should I copy .pinerc to pine.info, or create a new pine.info?

Thanks for your help.
Hong

-----Original Message-----
From: Gopi Sundaram [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:17 PM
To: Hong Tian
Cc: Pine Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: pine.info and pine.conf

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Hong Tian wrote:

> (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?

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.fixed?

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

-- 
Gopi Sundaram
[email-masked]
http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gopalan/Pine/

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:14:40 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Hong Tian wrote:

> (2) After running pine command, a file named .pinerc created for
> each user automatically.

This is normal. It is the default config file for all users. If you want
to set certain settings that all users will want, such as their inbox
path, you should set that in the pine.conf file. For example, the
pine.conf file for my department looks like this:

smtp-server=smtp.cse.sc.edu
inbox-path={imap.cse.sc.edu/ssl}
nntp-server=news.cse.sc.edu
character-set=iso-8859-1

So for all users, unless they override these settings in their .pinerc
files, these will be the defaults.

The contents of the pine.conf.fixed file are:

rsh-open-timeout=0

Users cannot override this at all in their .pinerc file.

> I can't find pine.info in PINE package. Should I copy .pinerc to
> pine.info, or create a new pine.info?

As I stated before, the file is optional. Read the tech-notes for Pine
to see what it should contain. I gave you a URL in a previous message.