This example should help carify the syntax of the settings defined in the
previous section, with a set of artificial data.
Let us assume the following default information (You may provide your own
if you have it available):
Printed Name = "Foo Foo"
Account/User Name = "foofoo"
Domain Name = "foofoo.org"
Exchange/IMAP/LDAP Server = "192.168.1.25" |
NOTE: In order for the transition to be seamless, you have to make sure you
match the information precisely as it is stored on the Exchange Server. (ie
if your name on the Exchange server is "John B. Doe", make sure you set your
printed name to the exact value)
Let us also assume, you have been using Outlook up to this point, and you have
accumulated some messages in your "INBOX", "Sent Items", and "Drafts". Not too
mention a couple of personal folders you created in your "INBOX" on the server
to categorize your mail: "TODO", "DONE", and "Personal".
Here are the settings you should find in your ~/.pinerc file. In most cases, each
setting will be empty (ie "key=" with no value specified). Here is what they
would look like plugging in the default information.
user-domain=foofoo.org
smtp-server=192.168.1.25
inbox-path={192.168.1.25/user=foofoo}INBOX
folder-collections="INBOX Folders" {192.168.1.25/user=foofoo}inbox/[],
"Mailbox Folders" {192.168.1.25/user=foofoo}[]
default-fcc="{192.168.1.25/user=foofoo}Sent Items"
postponed-folder={192.168.1.25/user=foofoo}Drafts
customized-hdrs=From: Foo Foo <foofoo at foofoo.org>
ldap-servers=192.168.1.100 "/base=/impl=1/rhs=0/ref=0/nosub=0/type=
/srch=contains/time=/size=/cust=/nick=/matr=/catr=/satr=/gatr="
rsh-open-timeout=0 |
NOTE: If you want to try SMTP Authentication with the above configuration, you
would replace:
with:
smtp-server=192.168.1.25/user=foofoo |
This configuration affects all the users on the system and requires a bit more
work to setup. Only a UNIX SysAdmin should attempt this configuration.
NOTE: In order for this configuration to work properly, the Microsoft domain
account information must be synced up with the Unix account information
(ie. usernames and full names must match).
Looking at the default provided information you should notice that "Printed Name",
and "Account/User Name" now have to be generalized. For "Printed Name", in
removing it from the configuration file, Pine will default to the personal name
found in the /etc/passwd file. For "Account/User Name", you can use "${USER}",
which points to the environment variable which holds the users login name. So
with that you get the following configuration:
user-domain=foofoo.org
smtp-server=192.168.1.25
inbox-path={192.168.1.25/user=${USER}}INBOX
folder-collections="INBOX Folders" {192.168.1.25/user=${USER}}inbox/[],
"Mailbox Folders" {192.168.1.25/user=${USER}}[]
default-fcc="{192.168.1.25/user=${USER}}Sent Items"
postponed-folder={192.168.1.25/user=${USER}}Drafts
#customized-hdrs=From: Foo Foo <foofoo at foofoo.org>
ldap-servers=192.168.1.100 "/base=/impl=1/rhs=0/ref=0/nosub=0/type=
/srch=contains/time=/size=/cust=/nick=/matr=/catr=/satr=/gatr="
rsh-open-timeout=0 |
NOTE: In this configuration we want to comment out the "customized-hdrs" setting
since we want the user information to be retrieved from the system /etc/passwd
file.
The last step in this configuration is determining whether to put the settings
in /etc/pine.conf or /etc/pine.conf.fixed. That choice is yours, and depends
on how much control you need to give to the users. If your company only
uses Exchange, maybe all the settings should go in fixed, but then users couldn't
use Pine for anything else. Remember, if you put a setting in pine.conf.fixed,
the user does not have the option to change it.
When you first start up Pine, with your new configuration file (You can use the
command 'pine -p .pinerc.new-config' if you have multiple), Pine will
automatically try to connect to your Exchange/IMAP Server. After establishing a
connection, using the provided username from the configuration file, it will
prompt you for your password. This will be your network logon password on the
Microsoft domain. Once you get authenticated, you should be ready to go.
When you first open your folder list, you should see three folder collections.
Incoming Folders(INBOX), INBOX Folders(personal folders), and Mailbox Folders
specialized folders).
Even though this is not a Pine HOWTO, there is one thing I want to point out
about navigating the folders. When viewing the contents of a folder, if you want
to view the list of messages in the folder, hit the "ENTER" key, if you want to
view the list of folders(subdirectories) in the folder, hit the ">" key. If you
need more information on using Pine, check out their website (see Resources).
Using the default configuration provided in this example, when you compose a
new message, and type in a name in the "To:" box. Pine will first check your
local addressbook for the nickname. If it doesn't find it, it will then run an
LDAP query by default, using the default name you typed as the search string.
Depending on the speed of the LDAP server, you should get a response
relatively quickly. From the results you can choose the entry you were looking
for, and continue writing your email.
NOTE: If you type in an email address in the "To:" box, it will NOT do an LDAP
search or any other addressbook search (ie. user at smtp.email.org).
If you just want to do a search, without actually composing a new message, you
can go directly to your addressbook, select the LDAP server, and type the
search string from there (ie (M)ain, (A)ddressbook).
In case you do not want Pine to do an automatic LDAP lookup everytime you
compose a new message, you can change the parameter "/impl=1" in the
"ldap-server" setting to "/impl=0". This will allow you to do a manual LDAP
query if you wish.
This procedure does not change from normal Pine usage. You can start composing
your message right away. When you send the message it will get sent through the
provided SMTP server.
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