Subject: Re: Wish list

From: "James H. Thompson - HNL" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:42:49 -1000

> > How a version of pine for the PC that will dialout a modem and connect to do
> > imapd (or pop) mail, via modem. This way on the road I could get my mail 
> > without long connect times.
> 
> Keith,
> This is on our wish list also, and planned for 1H94... 
> 
> Pine works fine via dialup IP (SLIP or PPP) but we will add an "offline
> mode" where it doesn't try to send mail immediately, and provide for
> saving (downloading) all or all new messages in one operation to minimize
> connect time.  Later there will be a richer set of "aggregate" operations
> to allow saving all messages that match particular criteria.  This will be
> done via IMAP, rather than POP, so that one can choose to save/download a
> *subset* of messages from the INBOX and choose to keep or expunge from the
> server the subset of messages that was saved. 
> 

For disconnected operation to be useful for our users they would
need the ability to queue requests to file messsages into folders
while disconnected.  When PINE reconnected via IMAP or whatever
the message filing requests would be executed.

Also not clear to me how well SLIP/PPP will work when users are accessing
the host via dialup into international X.25 networks - as anyone tried this?

Jim
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