Subject: Re: Winsock Pine and VMS?

From: [email-masked] (Rich Travsky)
Date: 30 Dec 94 09:52:39 MST

Philip Nelson <[email-masked]> writes:
>> I've tried a number of ways of formatting the inbox path.
>> The manual suggests as a template
>>     #device:[directory-path]mailfile.mai#folder_name
>> and the pinerc says to preface this with the host name in
>> curly brackets. Been there, done that, no matter what I try
>> I get error number 10061.
>
>Is the IMAP server running?  PMDF doesn't do this by default.
Yes.

>I use the syntax:
>{gbms01.uwgb.edu}[]
Yup, tried this shortly before your response came over the wire, 
and it worked. (Must be ESP!)

Sending mail has some kinks yet. PCPine tries to create a sentmail
folder, our OpenVMS system doesn't understand the CREATE directive,
nor the subsequent APPEND. Mail still goes out tho.

Rich
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Shaken, not stirred. - Jean Luc Bond

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From: [email-masked] (Andy Stoffel)
Date: 30 Dec 1994 18:19:21 -0500

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>I picked up a copy of PCPine, winsock flavor, to try out.
>Our OpenVMS system is running pmdf, the manuals claim pine
>should be supported. My problem is getting the client to
>open the inbox (or any folder, for that matter).

Pine is 'supported' in 2 ways by PMDF....

1 - You have the PMDF IMAPD (or some other IMAPD) running
2 - PMDF has its' own 'version' of PINE for VMS... this is most likely
    what you're seeing in the docs. the command is 

$ PMDF PINE 

It automatically opens up your mail.... no configuring really needed.

>Suggestions?

Try (I'm assuming you hav an IMAPD running) this from a working pinerc:
[

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path={imap_host_internet_address}inbox

###################### Collections, Folders, and Files#####################

# List of directories where saved-message folders may be. First one is
# the default for Saves. Example: Main {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[]
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
folder-collections={imap_host_internet_address}[]

Hope this helps....

-Andy-

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