Re: imap connection with pine

Steve Hubert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Organization Univ of Washington; Computing and Communications; Seattle
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Rick Gaine wrote:

>
> We've just installed a new system to act as a mail server.  The new server no 
> longer exports the mail spool area and we require users to connect via imap. 
> The imap server is a dovecot server.  The linux system is configured to be 
> extremely secure.  The question is that when pine opens on the clients there 
> is a delay before prompting for username/password. Some type message comes up 
> about an rsh connection failing.  We aren't allowing rsh to this system.  Is 
> there a way to eliminate this so the users do not have to experience a time 
> delay?
>
> Rick Gaine
> Systems Administrator
> Rutgers University

Sorry for my slow response. I believe that another way to speed things up 
is to get the firewall to respond to the rsh attempt instead of eating the 
packet, causing pine to have to wait until it times out.

Steve
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