Subject: PINE for MAC?

From: [email-masked] (Myles Kagan)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 15:04:43 GMT

Is PINE or a program like PINE available for the MAC.  I am looking for a
telnet-able E-mail server software that works on a MAC.  I'd prefer to run
a server on the MAC platform, if at all possible.  Please send me E-mail. 
Thank You. 

		        Myles <[email-masked]

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:04:10 -0800

> 		        Myles <[email-masked]

	As far as I know, there is not a version of pine which runs on a
macintosh.  Since pine runs purely as text, however, it can be run on
pretty much any remote unix machine with your mac serving as a dumb
terminal.  That is what we do all the time. If you have a 14.4k modem, the
operation is pretty seemless. 2400 cps is slow, though. Over ethernet, it
should be as good as running anything locally on the mac, unless your
ethernet backbone is highly overtaxed. If you are determined to have a
program running locally on your mac and your mac has an ethernet
connection to the internet, you can also use a mailtool from
ftp.cac.washington.edu /mail/mac/Mailstrom_1.05.hqx. Since our macs
are not ethernetted to the main system, I haven't checked this program out
thoroughly, but it looks nice. (It doesn't work over a modem.  If, as you
say, you use telnet, then it should work for you.) You might also check 
to see if NCSA has anything.

				Ian Ollmann

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From: [email-masked] (Paul J. Schinder)
Date: 29 Mar 95 22:32:11 GMT

>to see if NCSA has anything.

Anyone with a Mac who wants a MIME compliant mail client can get a
free one from <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/mac/eudora/1.5/> called Eudora.
There's also a commercial version of Eudora that many people swear by
which has (naturally enough) more features than the free version.
Eudora uses POP for incoming mail and SMTP to a server for outgoing.
There is an SMTP server (Mailshare) that can be used with Eudora if
you're in a pure SMTP environment (on a LAN, for example).  Hunt in
the usual Mac archives (Sumex and Umich, mirrored at many places
including wuarchive.wustl.edu, see the Mac FAQ's for more sites) for
Mailshare.  There's also a pure SMTP client called Leemail, but I've
never used it.

I use the free version of Eudora on my Mac at home over a PPP
connection, and pine on my Sun workstation.  I personally would never
want pine on my Mac.

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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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