Subject: Offline reading and answering?

From: [email-masked] (Christer Lindh)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 09:19:58 MET

As PC-PINE stands today, it depends on being connected to a network,
(and it works great that way).

When I go on business trips or on vacation, I usually download a bunch
of the most overflowing inboxes and read it and answer them on my
laptop. I've done this in a very brute way, with emacs and a (UNIX)
script that'll mail out the answer when I get back.

Pine could fit in here, using a version without any Imapd, SMTP or
network dependicies.  Turning off the ability to read remote boxes if
it is compiled without net can't be hard.

The thing(?) that would require some work would be queuing outgoing
mail in a folder ("outgoing") instead of using SMTP to send it directly.

That could be handed over to something that sent it using SMTP later
on.

Any thoughts on this?  Does anyone know of other solutions to it?

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 08:06:17 -0700 (PDT)

Dial-up and disconnected operation are on the agenda for future releases.

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 09:55:15 -0700 (PDT)

Christer -

     Offline reading and answering is a very important issue for us (we call
it ``disconnected operation'').  There is still a minor change needed to the
IMAP protocol to enable it -- a unique ID mechanism -- plus a fair amount of
programming...

     However, I can guarantee that it will happen.  It has been identified as
a MUST DO project some time ago.  It was not a target of this release (after
all, we've slipped about a year on it already and the UNIX version is still a
week or so away), but I hope that it'll be in the next release.

     Also, most of the members of the Pine team are laptop users and are thus
personally sensitized to the need.  A SLIP link can be nice, but that still
doesn't work well from airplanes!!  :-)

Regards,

-- Mark --

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 23:07:49 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 17 Jul 1993, Mark Crispin wrote:

>                                                                      (after
> week or so away)

A more realistic estimate for the Unix version is sometime in August.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle