[Alpine-info] Alpine and Prompting for UserID and Password.

[Scratch Mang]

I'm seriously beginning to think that this is a Sendmail issue now...
 
Ben, You script works perfectly. I get prompted for a UserID using the setup as you defined. However I'm not getting asked for a password, (Which I assumed is what would happen when you present Sendmail with a different UserID).... Damn I'm loosing my head here....
 
So One last time I guess.... And if this is a Sendmail issue, please let me know... But here goes...
 
I telnet to the RHEL System as "FRED" and when I start alpine I'm asked for a UserID, So Wanting to check my own Mail I type in "FRED" and away I go.... Now I exit Alpine and need to Check "Barneys" E-mail... SO once again I start Alpine and it asks me for a UserID.. I type in "Barney" (And never get asked for Barney's Password) and get the error message 
 
"[Unable to open file /var/spool/mail/Barney]"
 
Bleeding Heck...... I get closer and closer but still no luck....
 
 
Now here's the Sendmail info....
 
[root@******]# sendmail -d0.1Version 8.13.8 Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX                MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6                NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF SOCKETMAP STARTTLS                TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT
 
 
And Alpine
 
GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE ALPINE MESSAGE SYSTEM
Version 1.10(built Mon Mar 24 14:32:09 EDT 2008)
 
Kernel....
[root@******]# uname -aLinux ****.******.com 2.6.18-53.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:48:18 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
Just cannot think of anything else. I've been five hours now in front of the Machine with a couple of SSH Sessions open to the server trying all sorts of config changes to Sendmail/Alpine and have hit a brick wall.....
 
 
 
 
Thanks....
 
Dave
 



 
 
 

> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:59:51 -0400> From: alpine at benizi.com> To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: [Alpine-info] Alpine and Prompting for UserID and Password.> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Scratch Mang wrote:> > > Thanks for the Help...> >> > Unfortunately, I'm not having any luck...> >> > Here's the relevant section from the /etc/pine.conf file... as it BEFORE > > I made any changes, and things were OK... And by that I mean Alpine was > > starting using the UserID of the Currently logged in User...> >> >> > # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox> > # Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).> > # inbox-path=> >> >> > So Sendmail and Alpine all run on the Same box....> >> > I changed it to read as follows... [...]> > The '/user=' part is supposed to be part of the "server specification" > (the part inside the curly brackets, e.g. {mail.example.edu/user=}INBOX)> > If it's a local folder, there's no server specification, so you can't use > the /user= trick to get it to prompt. You can try prompting from your > shell (shell = command line/command window).> > Inside /etc/pine.conf:> > inbox-path=/var/spool/mail/$ALPINE_USER> > Then, from your shell: (all on one line)> > echo 'Alpine user?' && read ALPINE_USER && env ALPINE_USER=$ALPINE_USER alpine> > If that works (the main uncertainty is the '/var/spool/mail' portion), > then you can set up an alias, e.g.:> > alias alpine='echo "Alpine user?" && read ALPINE_USER && env ALPINE_USER=$ALPINE_USER alpine'> > (Then you need to put that in your shell's startup files, which again, is > something I won't go into.)> > > > > ================> >> > Non Related things... [...]> >> > Top Posting? OK.  I appear to have been doing something wrong when > > replying. Sorry in advance if I've done it wrong again but could someone > > explain what "Top Posting" so I don't do it again :P> >> > A: Because it disrupts the flow of the conversation> Q: Why is top posting bad?> > (That's a joke, but pertinent. I think it's from an alpine-user list > user's signature, actually.)> > See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting> > I find programmers (including me) in general have less patience for top > posting. (It makes less sense!) And we tend to also be the only group who > does the even-more sensible inline replying. (cf. this email.) [My > non-computer-savvy friends call it "programmer style" when I switch to > it.]> > Best,> Ben

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