Subject: POP client for Pine?

From: [email-masked] (Phil Trubey)
Date: 16 Aug 1994 23:50:25 -0700

Are there any plans to include a POP client in Pine?

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:16:26 -0700 (PDT)

> Are there any plans to include a POP client in Pine?

It's being considered.  The protocol part is easy (and in fact the
C-client libraries include a POP driver), but we have not yet thought
about all the other stuff, e.g. what new configuration variables are
needed to distinguish between the remote INBOX --which is now just an
intermediate drop point-- and the local INBOX you wish to append new
messages to; how to control disconnecting and reconnecting to check for 
new mail, etc, etc.

So, no promises yet, but it could happen --perhaps as an adjunct to the 
offline processing support planned for a future release.

-teg

p.s. I have my own thoughts on why doing this might make sense, even 
though we have no plans to deploy POP at UW, but I'd be interested in 
hearing from you in a private message about why you are interested.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:43:22 -0700 (PDT)

The underlying c-client library that Pine uses now supports POP, so it would
not be hard to hack in POP support, but we are waiting until we can make Pine
behave like a more traditional POP client... 

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