Subject: getting list of remote Mailboxes

From: [email-masked] (Gregory Gerard)
Date: 12 Dec 1994 15:23:26 GMT

Is there anyway to get a list of remote mailboxes?  It is a real
pain not being able to browse through them.

thanks,
greg

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Dec 1994 15:36:31 GMT

>pain not being able to browse through them.

Do you mean remote folders on a host that you know about?  If so,
edit your .pinerc so it contains lines like these:

incoming-folders={stein.u.washington.edu}inbox

folder-collections={stein.u.washington.edu}Folders/[],
	*{imap.mid.net/anonymous}pub/NET/[]

When you start Pine you will be prompted for a userID and password
for any non-anonymous hosts.  The Folders directory is relative to
the home directory of the userID you give.

When you go into Pine's folder list (with the L command) you'll see 
all the folders.  I think it's nicest if you set expanded-view-of-folders.

Does anyone know what an * before a folder collection means?
I tried it without it and it doesn't work.  It shows up in the
folder list (Pine's L command) as a "News-collection".

Also, does anyone know what else can be used other than anonymous
after "host.name/" - I tried to specify my userid but that didn't
work.  Is there a way to pre-specify your userid?

Thanks for any info,
Nancy

PS - I love IMAP!!!

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( o.o )   Nancy McGough       <URL:http://www.jazzie.com/ii/>
 > ^ <    Infinite Ink        <URL:ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii>

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 21:24:44 -0800 (PST)

> work.  Is there a way to pre-specify your userid?

Not yet, but we plan to have a way to do that in a future release.

Right now the only keywords allowed after the host name are protocol 
specifiers (e.g. nntp, imap), and anonymous.  IMAP is the default, but if 
you explicitly set it, Pine will not try to connect to the server via rsh
(for pre-authentication purposes.)

-teg