Subject: Pine supporting IMSP

From: [email-masked] (Mark Thacker...CWIS Coordinator)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 19:56:12 -0600

Having tested ECS Mail version 3 and being fairly impressed with IMSP, I
wonder if Pine will eventually support the IMSP standard.

IMSP stands for Internet Messaging Support Protocal (I think) and allows a
mail package to store it's configuration information on some remote
machine.  This means that whenever I fire up a mail/IMSP client from
anywhere in the world, as long as it is pointed to the proper IMSP server,
all of my personal setup information (folder configuration, message
services to connect to, what windows were open, what viewers to use
etc....) are all downloaded and interpreted for the client that I am on.

I remember reading somewhere that Pine might support the IMSP standard one
day, but am curious about how soon that might be.  The ISA Corp will have
it ready in ECS Mail version 3 when it ships in the next month or so.

Thanks again!

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Mark Thacker             Internet: [email-masked]
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 09:15:44 -0700 (PDT)

Pine will support IMSP, but a specific schedule has not been set for
implementation.  Is ISA going to distribute/support an IMSP server, or are
they relying on the server from CMU (currently in _alpha_ test)? 

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