Subject: pop3 and imap - help

From: Yaakob Abdullah <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 22:44:35 -0500 (EST)

We have several pop3 severs -- can pine access them as well as remote
imap servers and how?

Thank you in advance.

Yaakob Abdullah

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:13:40 -0800 (PST)

Yaakob,

No, Pine does not support POP.  The same machine can serve as both a pop3 
and imap server though.  The UW IMAP distribution even includes a pop3 
server that coexists quite well with imapd.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:08:00 -0800 (PST)

> We have several pop3 severs -- can pine access them as well as remote

Hello.

At the present time, Pine can not access POP servers.  It could be made to
without too much difficulty, by writing a POP driver in the c-client engine
used by Pine for mailbox access.

However, there are serious questions as to how useful this would be.  POP
protocol is not very powerful, and a number of the operations that Pine does
are unimplementable in POP.  The most useful thing that POP could be used for
is to download messages to a local file in PC-Pine.  For daily server-based
mailbox usage, however, POP would probably be intolerable.

-- Mark --