[TriLUG] outgoing mail problem on pilot

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Another Alpine user here and I support Joseph 100%.

Besides which, my text email client won't catch any viruses :-)

William Sutton

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, Aaron Schrab via TriLUG wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply and the fix.
>
>>> I just sent an e-mail to the problem report form on pilot. On pressing 
>>> submit I got "you have been banned from posting"
>>
>> I'm hoping that this had the same root cause as the initial problem.  I 
>> doubt if you were actually banned.
>
> I was hoping the same.
>
>>> The original problem: I use alpine on pilot for mail.
>>
>> That does sound like a pretty big problem. :)
>
> :-)
>
> I guess I should expect to be a target for that sort of ribbing
>
> I started my sysadmin days in the era of 16kbaud modems. This was perfectly 
> fine 
> for editing files with vi, but if I had to mess with a program that had a gui 
> and thought you were sitting at the machine's console I knew it would be 
> 20mins 
> before the graphics instructions would form the gui on my screen at home. As 
> a 
> result I only use tools that require low bandwdth to the remote machine, and 
> use 
> utilities whose files can be grep'ed etc. Pine is perfect for the job. From 
> what 
> I know mutt would be good too, but I already have something that works 
> perfectly 
> so I'm not going to fix it.
>
>>> Just now I got a TLS error on attempting to send.
>>
>> The mail server was configured with an unsupported selection of ciphers.
>
> THanks for handling it. It's working just fine now.
> Joe
>
>
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