Subject: Pine Folders -> Eudora (PC) mailboxes

From: [email-masked] (Caitrin Lynch)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 15:35:49

How can I transform my pine folders into something readable Eudora (PC).

Thanks, 
Nick

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From: [email-masked] (Noel Hunter)
Date: 6 Jul 1994 21:08:42 GMT

Caitrin Lynch ([email-masked]) wrote:

: How can I transform my pine folders into something readable Eudora (PC).

The ipop3d server that somes with the imap stuff availalable on the ftp 
archive ftp.cac.washington.edu allows pop clients to access imap services,
I believe.  If I'm right, you could do something like set your pop
server to point to the ipop3d server, and then use the proper imap inbox 
name for the address portion.  The man page says:

      IPOP2d and IPOP3d are servers which support the POP2 and POP3 remote
      mail access protocols respectively.  IPOP2d and IPOP3d can also be
      used by POP2 and POP3 clients to access mailboxes on IMAP servers by
      specifying a login user name in the form <host>:<user> e.g.,
      SERVER.WASHINGTON.EDU:SMITH.

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* Noel Hunter,  Academic Systems Administrator,    Wake Forest University *
* email: [email-masked]                            http://www.wfu.edu/~noel *

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 18:17:20 -0700 (PDT)

Noel,
I'm guessing that Caitrin was interested in making *saved message* folders
accessible to PC-Eudora, rather than simply sharing a common INBOX.

As far as I know, PC-Eudora uses the Bky Unix "mbox" format, which is also
what Pine uses by default.  So it *should* be possible to transfer Unix
Pine folders to your PC and access them as local folders in Eudora... but
I haven't tried this myself.  I'm guessing you want to transfer in "ascii"
mode in order to get newline conversion. 

POP3 does not support access to arbitrary remote folders, only the inbox,
so using the ipop3d as a "POP-to-IMAP gateway" will probably not help
in this case.

For those who are interested in co-existence of IMAP and POP clients
with respect to INBOX access:

1. You can run a POP server on the same machine acting as your IMAP 
server.  The ipop3d Noel mentions would be a good choice, since it uses 
the same locking discipline as imapd.  (I believe the CMU IMAP server 
also has a companion POP server available.)

2. If both POP and IMAP servers exist, but are on different machines, you
could replace the existing POP server with ipop3d, which is capable of
operating as a gateway to a different IMAP server for POP clients, as well
as providing normal POP access to INBOXes stored on the same machine. 

3. If you can't touch the existing servers, but have root access to yet
another Unix box, you could run ipop3d on it, and have it serve purely
as a POP gateway to an existing IMAP server.

Note that the gateway works best if you don't leave mail on the server. If
you tell Eudora to leave mail on the server, it will keep fetching the
same messages over and over when you check for new mail.  This is probably
fixable, but we haven't had time to track down the incompatibilty. 

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
Date: 10 Jul 1994 23:04:02 +0300

>How can I transform my pine folders into something readable Eudora (PC).

I just transferred my Eudora (Mac) folders to my unix account, and put 
them in ~/mail.  I used ftp where the ftp-client did the proper linefeed
conversion.  Pine read the files with no problems.  I suppose you can
make it happen the other way around too.
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