[Alpine-info] Access remote_pinerc over ssh-tunneled preauth IMAP

[Steve Hubert]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan Hankins wrote:


> [ can't override rsh-command for remote pinerc ]

>

> It would be nice if options specified in the global pine.conf, or manually on 

> the command line "took" before the attempt to read the remote pinerc.

>

> Thanks,

>

> -Jonathan Hankins


We agree that this is a weakness. Since there is usually a way to work 
around the problem and since it doesn't look like it is at all easy to fix 
properly, we haven't fixed it. It is on the list, but not near the top. 
Thanks.

Steve