Subject: PC/Win pine "offline" how ???

From: [email-masked] (Eigil Krogh Sorensen)
Date: 6 Oct 1994 18:11:53 GMT

Is it possible to have PC/Win pine work "offline".

It is so that our central e-mail server is a UNIX machine (SCO). Our
PCs pine then fetches e-mails from INBOX and stores mails in mail-
folders on that machine via imap. When the PC's pine send mails they
send it to the UNIX machine with smtp. This works fine as long as
the PC are connected to our Ethernet LAN.

But if the PC's are placed outside the department, telephone connections
has to be used, and that costs a lot of money if the line (e.g. slip
or ppp) has to be open all the time pine is running.

Therefor my question is if it is possible in one or another way to
get pine to "download" the total INBOX to the PC at once, so the 
telephone connection can be closed, and then the user on the PC
can read the mails (local on the pc), reply, Compose etc. and when
finished the telephone line is opened again and the outgoing mails
are sent. All in all to reduce the time the telephone line is open
as much as possible.

The SCO UNIX both has imap(d), ipop and ipop3. I never used other
than imap(d). Can ipop? be used to do what I want ? How is it done
then ?

Hints, advices and suggestions are wellcome

Thanks in advance

 -- Eigil Krogh Sorensen
 
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