Using secure pine to access remote sites

imap/ssl capable pine is installed on the newer linux computers, including the public computers pap, par, pat, paw, pay, pea, peg, pen, pep and pal

The command is pine.ssl and takes the same command line options as the normal pine, but you can also specify "/ssl" in any imap specification to tell it to use imap over ssl (imaps).

e.g. to connect to a remote imap INBOX with ssl the command could be:

  *   pine.ssl -inbox-path={remote.imap-server.hostname/ssl}

and of course to specify the remote login name:

  *   pine.ssl -inbox-path={remote.imap-server.hostname/user=loginname/ssl}

e.g. to access your hermes inbox securely you might use something like:

  *   pine.ssl -inbox-path="{imap.hermes.cam.ac.uk/user=loginname/ssl}"

replacing remote.imap-server.hostname with the appropiate hostname and loginname with your login name for the concerned host.

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Useful links

• Introduction to pine
• Official pine tutorial
• Pine official faq page
• Pine damtp faq
• Pine Command line options

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