Subject: compiling pine

From: Hong Tian <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:07:53 -0400

Hi,

(1) Our mail server is NT Exchange server. I downloaded pine-bin.sun58 and
installed it on Sun Ultra 10. It is working good. The pine.conf is as
following:

user-domain=ias.edu
inbox-path={exchange.ias.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX
character-set=iso-8859-1

(2) Now we decide to use PASSFILE, so the user doesn't need password to
login pine. I download the latest pine.tar.Z and compile using gcc version
2.95.2 as followings:

# cd /download/pine4.44
# ./build gs5
# cp /pine4.44/bin/pine /usr/local/bin
# su - htian
% pine

I use the same pine.conf as before. But I get error message as followings:
[Can't open mailbox {exchange.ias.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid
remote specification]

Anyone knows what is the problem for this new compiling? How should I
resolve the invalid remote specification?

Thanks,
Hong

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:21:17 -0700 (PDT)

*** Hong Tian ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I use the same pine.conf as before. But I get error message as
:) followings: [Can't open mailbox
:) {exchange.ias.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote
:) specification]

It looks like you did not compile SSL into it, if you want to know if SSL
is compiled into it, start pine as follows:

pine -supported

it will give you a list of drrivers, authenticators, etc that are
supported. At the very top, it should say:

Encryption:
  TLS and SSL

if it does not say that, then SSL was not added, and you should see why it
was so. Normally, pine will tell you either at the moment that compilation
starts why it can not add SSL (e.g. the ssl library is in the wrong
directory) or at the end it will tell you another message, of what it
found wrong, and you should try to solve those problems, otherwise, you
won't be able to add SSL support. If you don't care about ssl, and you
want to avoid seeing nasty error messages simply build pine as

build NOSSL xyz

(xyz is the code you need to enter).

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/