Subject: POP in Pine 3.91?

From: Mary Aplin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 18:34:44 +0100 (MET)

Hello PINErs --

I just compiled PINE3.91 on a DEC Alpha 3300 running OSF.  I thought I 
had read/heard somewhere that 3.91 could also be used as a POP mail 
server. I do already have pop3d on this same alpha.  Is it true?  If so, 
what needs to be done?

Thanks!
Mary Aplin
Loyola University, New Orleans

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From: Peter Svanberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 23:35:17 +0100

Quoting:  Mary Aplin <[email-masked]>
> ... I thought I 

(I suppose you meant POP *client*.)

>From the 6 januari FAQ:

    Subject: Can PC-Pine be used with a POP server?

    No. Neither Pine nor PC-Pine currently support POP's offline
    mail model (wherein pending mail is pulled from the mail server
    to the local machine and deleted from the server).  However, it
    is likely that this model will be supported, with a choice of
    either IMAP or POP as the access protocol, in a future release.

Implementation/technical question to the Pine team:

On our Unix site we would like to use POP (with Kerberos
support, "kpop") just as a safer method of fetching
/usr/spool/mail/$USER contents to $HOME/mbox than using
NFS. We have a program which can do this kpop fetch.

How difficult would it be (for you or us) to change Pine to run
this program for the mbox-fetch rather than opening and copying
it itself? Hmm, a change in the c-client mbox.c file (we use
mbox driver as default), function mbox_ping() seems to be
needed, right?
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Peter Svanberg, NADA, KTH		    Email: [email-masked]
Dept of Num An & CS,
Royal Inst of Tech			    Phone: +46 8 790 71 40
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