Using Pine, I get the error: Problem detected: “Received abort signal”

Question:

I tried to send mail from pine and got the error:

Problem detected: “Received abort signal”.

Answer:

We have added a TLS encryption to the mail server and some versions of pine do not work correctly with TLS.

Here is how to fix the problem:

At the main pine menu

press s for setup

c for config

then set the third line (smtp-server) to be:

localhost/novalidate-cert

Save your settings and you should now be able to send mail.