Can pain just use IMAP instead of groing through rsh

[Fred Albrecht]

I use Pine 4.33L2 to access a central mail server through IMAP. It works
fine except that Pine insists on trying to rsh to the machine to start
the imapd (the r* commands are of course disabled so I have to wait for
this to timeout) process instead of just connecting to the IMAP port.

This causes a ~10 second delay whenever I start Pine which isn't a real
problem (it's just once every other day since Pine is typically always
running) but is still irritating. Does anyone know if there is a way to
get the program to just use plain IMAP ?

I've looked all over the documentation and haven't found anything.

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[Fred Albrecht]

"Can pain just use IMAP instead of groing through rsh"

s/pain/Pine/

Sorry, must've been my subconscious playing tricks on me :)

Oh, and s/groing/going/ while I'm at it.... sheesh

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[Eduardo Chappa]

*** Fred Albrecht (azzpg...@sneakemail.com) wrote in comp.mail.pine on...:

:) I use Pine 4.33L2 to access a central mail server through IMAP. It works
:) fine except that Pine insists on trying to rsh to the machine to start
:) the imapd (the r* commands are of course disabled so I have to wait for
:) this to timeout) process instead of just connecting to the IMAP port.

Edit your .pinerc file and set

rsh-open-timeout=0

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[Fred Albrecht]

In article
<Pine.EDO.4.40.010927...@goedel1.math.washington.edu>,
"Eduardo Chappa" <cha...@math.washington.edu> wrote:

> *** Fred Albrecht (azzpg...@sneakemail.com) wrote in comp.mail.pine
> on...:
>
> :) I use Pine 4.33L2 to access a central mail server through IMAP. It
> works :) fine except that Pine insists on trying to rsh to the machine
> to start :) the imapd (the r* commands are of course disabled so I have
> to wait for :) this to timeout) process instead of just connecting to
> the IMAP port.
>
> Edit your .pinerc file and set
>
> rsh-open-timeout=0

That did it. It was even in the comments of the rc file Duh.

Thanks for the pointer, my problem is finally solved. :)

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[Andreas Damm]

change rsh-open-timeout to 0 in your .pinerc (have to use text editor,
option does not seem to be available through config dialog)

"Fred Albrecht" <azzpg...@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:9p09lm$bd6$2...@neon.noos.net...

[Mark Crispin]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Andreas Damm wrote:
> change rsh-open-timeout to 0 in your .pinerc (have to use text editor,
> option does not seem to be available through config dialog)

That disables rsh globally, as does setting rsh-path to a non-existant
file name.

You can specify the explicit port number ":143", e.g.
{myserver.foo.com:143}

Pine 4.41 will have the new /norsh flag, e.g.
{myserver.foo.com/norsh}

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