From chime at hubert-humphrey.com  Sat Feb  4 12:40:10 2023
From: chime at hubert-humphrey.com (Chime Hart)
Date: Fri Mar 22 14:17:32 2024
Subject: [Alpine-info] Can We Talk About Binary News-Groups Again?
Message-ID: <730bdfc9-d801-b6f4-d8ca-53c0379c2dec@hubert-humphrey.com>

Well, since trn seems to mysteriously bomb out on certain articles, I thought I 
would again try alpine. So I set a range of 9999. In another binary group, I 
was able to export groups of 177 messages to a file which I would decode later. 
If I tried exporting either more than 200 messages or exported maybe 3 groups 
of messages in 1 session, it would close the mailbox with an access error. So 
after finishing that group, I went on to alt.binaries.e-books.flood. There 
actually are 66thousand articles I would like to grab, but 9999 is the most I 
can set a range. Well, in this group, no matter how small an amount of articles 
I export, I only capture a name, date, and poster, but not any contents. I've 
never seen this behavior as I've been working with news-groups since 1997.
Are their ways of setting ranges for other than a most recent group of 
articles? Thanks in advance
Chime

From olaf at kravcenko.com  Thu Feb  9 10:18:33 2023
From: olaf at kravcenko.com (Olaf Skibbe)
Date: Fri Mar 22 14:17:32 2024
Subject: [Alpine-info] Problem with "Disable Password File Saving"
Message-ID: <b326314c-10b3-3f06-4304-f296ebc384a4@kravcenko.com>

Hi all,

I do not manage to switch off the attempt of alpine to create a
password file. Maybe it is a bug.

Details:

ALPINE 2.26

Config:
[X]  Disable Password File Saving

I try to sen a message. In the following, "Alpine:" indicates alpine's
output, in angle brackets is what I do:

Alpine: HOST: smtp.xxxx.xx  USER: xxx@kxxxxx.com  ENTER PASSWORD:
<I mistype the password>
Alpine: [>Attempting to encrypt password file<]
Alpine: Create master password (attempt 1 of 3):
<cancel>
Alpine: [>Refusing to write non-encrypted password file<]
Alpine: HOST: smtp.xxxx.xx  USER: xxx@kxxxxx.com  ENTER PASSWORD:

I would expect to be prompted with the last line after mistyping the
password.

This is 100% reproducible for sending mails (SMTP). Strangely, it
happens only rarely when I access the mailbox via IMAP. The behavior
occurs in the same way for two different hoster.

Am I missing something?
Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Olaf

From lists at pote.com  Wed Feb 15 12:17:25 2023
From: lists at pote.com (Paul)
Date: Fri Mar 22 14:17:32 2024
Subject: [Alpine-info] "syntax error in sequence"
Message-ID: <o575r2-4pn0-s86p-5r5p-2379nq4251s7@cbgr.pbz>

Hi -

Once every week or two, when I send a reply (via a remote SMTP server), 
Alpine 2.25 tells me "Syntax error in sequence" after the send finishes.

I've been ignoring the messages, but lately it seems that those messages 
never reach the recipient! That's a problem.

The message is successfully FCCed to the sent-mail box, but the 
"Answered" flag isn't set (my inbox is a local Maildir).

How can I track this down?

thanks,
 	Paul


From alpine.chappa at yandex.com  Wed Feb 15 14:24:10 2023
From: alpine.chappa at yandex.com (Eduardo Chappa)
Date: Fri Mar 22 14:17:32 2024
Subject: [Alpine-info] "syntax error in sequence"
In-Reply-To: <o575r2-4pn0-s86p-5r5p-2379nq4251s7@cbgr.pbz>
References: <o575r2-4pn0-s86p-5r5p-2379nq4251s7@cbgr.pbz>
Message-ID: <5f2537a1-dd54-c05c-2341-d94e7eae87a2@yandex.com>

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, Paul wrote:

> Once every week or two, when I send a reply (via a remote SMTP server),
> Alpine 2.25 tells me "Syntax error in sequence" after the send finishes.

You can track SMTP issues by enabling

[X]  Enable Verbose SMTP Posting

then repeat the issue, and once you have repeated it go to the main 
screen, press J D 9 to set the debug level to 9, and look for the word 
"EHLO" reading from that point will tell you the transaction between 
Alpine and the SMTP server. Hopefully that will be enough to figure out 
the issue. If you need help, let me know.

-- 
Eduardo