Ticket #312 (closed defect: fixed)
Update Pine default collections for Exchange
Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Fall 2009 Release |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
Now that the Exchange migration is back on, /etc/pine.conf should be updated to include both IMAP and Exchange folder collections. Something like the following should work:
folder-collections="MIT Traditional IMAP" {mit.edu/hesiod/imap/user=${ATHENA_USER:-$USER}}INBOX.[], "MIT Exchange IMAP" {imap.exchange.mit.edu/ssl/novalidate-cert/user=${ATHENA_USER:-$USER}}[], "Old MH Mail" #mh/[], "Local Pine Mail" ~/mail/[]
The names of the collections can be changed, if need be. This doesn't change the Inbox-Path, of course, but at least makes it easy for people to access both their IMAP and Exchange folders without having to venture into the Pine configuration screen.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed
Hesiod is fixed as of now:
jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ hesinfo starnine pobox
POP IMAP.EXCHANGE.MIT.EDU starnine
Note that Pine will still complain about imap.exchange.mit.edu not existing in the Kerberos database. According to http://northstar-www.dartmouth.edu/doc/pine/config.html, you can use "disable-these-authenticators=GSSAPI" in pinerc to selectively disable authenticators, but it appears to only work in /etc/pine.conf, and not in ~/.pinerc. And presumably we do not want to disable GSSAPI across the board since we eventually want GSSAPI for poNN{.mail,}.mit.edu
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by broder
Passing -disable-these-authenticators=GSSAPI on the command line seems to keep alpine from whining when it's trying to talk to Exchange, so we can fix this by adding a simple wrapper script for alpine.
The infinitely better way to fix this is to get Hesiod fixed for Exchange users. Then this sort of thing will Just Work.