On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Israel Bravo wrote:

Hello! I saw your post to the mailing list (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-January/010968.html) where you write "A description for pine with imap acces without entering any password is also discussed.", but I didn't find such description in this post.

Would you be so kind to point me to some source where it is explained - currently users have to insert the password twice - when they open the shell window and when they start Pine.

The passwordless access set up by that configuration is only applicable if you have Dovecot on the same server as Pine/Alpine (hereafter, *pine).

The relevant bits are:

rsh-open-timeout=30000 rsh-path= rsh-command=/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap

This subverts the 'rsh' mail access route to access localhost's dovecot installation directly. When *pine goes to connect via rsh, it will instead run dovecot, dropping into an IMAP connection without having to enter a password (since you're running locally -- PREAUTH).

I write "subverts", since I think this prevents a real 'rsh' connection from working properly. Plus, I'm not 100% sure this will always work properly. Dovecot running as a daemon has (at some point) root privileges. With my post-login script owned by root, I get:

Fatal: execv(/root/dovecot-login.sh) failed: Permission denied

Commenting my "mail_executable = /root/dovecot-login.sh" line fixes that, but it seems hack-ish that that's necessary.

Another question - may be you can help me: Currently we use Pine with IMAP (dovecot); both INBOX and folder collection are saved on the Linux server. But how to save the "saved-messages" and "sent-mail" folders in the user's home directory on the server?

This should happen fairly automatically, I think. I'm pretty sure *pine stores those in the first folder collection unless you override them.

inbox-path={cyrus.example.com/tls/user=username}INBOX folder-collections="Cyrus Server" {cyrus.example.com/tls/user=username}INBOX.[], ... etc. ...

No special setup for saved-messages, as far as I can see. [<No value set: using default "saved-messages">], though my default FCC is INBOX. I don't use sent-mail.

Best, Ben