[TriLUG] outgoing mail problem on pilot

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

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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