Subject: Pine 4.50 is now available

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:04:25 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

This note is to announce the availability of the Pine Message System
version 4.50. This release introduces some new functionality and
addresses some bugs found in earlier versions.

Specific information about changes can be found in the built-in release
notes ("R" off the Main Menu), or via any of:

        http://www.washington.edu/pine/

        http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html

        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/

UNIX source code for the latest Pine release is available at:

        http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/
or
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz
              (MD5: 5f517297242f625de9a9ccbaf48578f0)
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
              (MD5: 26b6817c64fd554efc74fb57e5164312)
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.bz2
              (MD5: fa2fba7fe1e2bb3b2f393830de5a8932)

We are no longer distributing binaries which don't have encryption
capabilities built in. Pre-built binaries are available for a small number
of UNIX operating environments for citizens of the U.S. or Canada via:

        http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/

The PC-Pine distribution is also available at the above url, or at:

        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/pm450w32.zip
              (MD5: b0d0acb1447eafe1c2009f3ec00eb122)

As with all Pine releases, it is important that you carefully test and
determine for yourself that it performs suitably in your environment
before placing Pine into production use.

The Pine Development Team
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From: Alessandro Selli <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:12:35 +0100 (CET)

I confirm this version fixes the remote DoS attack that was made public on
the 7th this month, the attack that makes pine dumpe core when the local INBOX
contains a message with a "From:" address like:

From: |"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\""@host.fubar

  Just tested with the executable built on a Slackware GNU/Linux 8.1, 2.4.19
kernel, with:

aselli@aselli /usr/src/pine4.50$ ./build slx

which automatically included SSL support (OpenSSL 0.9.6g 9 Aug 2002).

Il giorno Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Steve Hubert così ha scritto:

|From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
|To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
|Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:04:25 -0800
|Subject: Pine 4.50 is now available
|
|This note is to announce the availability of the Pine Message System
|version 4.50. This release introduces some new functionality and
|addresses some bugs found in earlier versions.
|
|Specific information about changes can be found in the built-in release
|notes ("R" off the Main Menu), or via any of:
|
|        http://www.washington.edu/pine/
|
|        http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html
|
|        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/
|
|
|UNIX source code for the latest Pine release is available at:
|
|        http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/
|or
|        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz
|              (MD5: 5f517297242f625de9a9ccbaf48578f0)
|        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
|              (MD5: 26b6817c64fd554efc74fb57e5164312)
|        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.bz2
|              (MD5: fa2fba7fe1e2bb3b2f393830de5a8932)
|
|We are no longer distributing binaries which don't have encryption
|capabilities built in. Pre-built binaries are available for a small number
|of UNIX operating environments for citizens of the U.S. or Canada via:
|
|        http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/
|
|The PC-Pine distribution is also available at the above url, or at:
|
|        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/pm450w32.zip
|              (MD5: b0d0acb1447eafe1c2009f3ec00eb122)
|
|As with all Pine releases, it is important that you carefully test and
|determine for yourself that it performs suitably in your environment
|before placing Pine into production use.
|
|The Pine Development Team
|

-- 
Bellum se ipsum alet
       La guerra nutre se stessa

Livio, Ab urbe condita, XXXIV,9

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From: Piotr Kasztelowicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:15:01 +0100 (MET)

Hello

confirmed compilation on Solaris 7 (gs5) with gcc 2.95.3
- without problems

Piotr Kasztelowicz
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Piotr Kasztelowicz                  [email-masked]
http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz

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From: Kevin DeGraaf <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:07:55 -0500

> addresses some bugs found in earlier versions.

When will Pine natively support qmail-style Maildirs?

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Kevin DeGraaf

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From: Josh Larios <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:35:59 -0800 (PST)

With a couple of minor patches, Pine 4.50 compiles with Kerberos, SSL and
LDAP support on MacOS X 10.2.2. I've put an (unofficial; I work for the
UW, but not on the Pine project) installer package and source patch
online: http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/osx-pine-notes-3.html

(Without the patches, LDAP support can't be compiled in and the Kerberos
libraries will cause Pine to hang if you don't have a ticket before trying
to open a kerberized mailbox. Other than that, it compiles just fine out
of the box.)

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Josh Larios                   Computing & Communications Client Services
University of Washington      Box 352830, Mary Gates Hall 011A
[email-masked]   Seattle, WA 98195-2830

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From: Lilla <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:54:12 +0100

> When will Pine natively support qmail-style Maildirs?

I think the Pine developers are sitting quite close to the UW-IMAP 
developers and the UW-IMAP people just seem to hate the Maildir-format 
because the UW-IMAP people are proud of the old mbox-format that they 
invented (not sure). In their FAQ they write 
(http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#1.31):

     "...nor are there any plans to add such support".

And more here: http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#6.9

But for my place which sometimes have ~100 Pine clientes running at the 
same time accessing their mailboxes (Maildir) over IMAP (Courier) makes 
the IMAP-server veeeeery slow which is bad... I also really would like 
to see Maildir-support in Pine because it would speed up thing _alot_.

Maybe someone have an unofficial Maildir-patch for Pine 4.50? Thanks in 
advance.

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Cheers,
Lilla

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From: Kevin DeGraaf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:08:12 -0500

>      "...nor are there any plans to add such support".

If what you say is true (and it sounds believable to me), then I'm very 
disappointed with the Pine/UW-IMAP developers.  Pride is a despicable reason 
for rejecting progress.

mbox may have been innovative when it was developed, but I think it's fair to 
say that Maildir is objectively better than mbox, since the former solves so 
many problems caused by the latter.

Pine is a *great* MUA, and I would be truly saddened if I had to give it up 
forever for such an easily-correctable reason.  But it's been almost a year 
since the mbox->Maildir switch at my place of employment, and I'm getting 
very sick of dealing with Pine's inability to use this modern mail storage 
format.

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Kevin DeGraaf