Subject: Re: REading pine mail off-line?

From: [email-masked] (John Pettigrew)
Date: 1 Mar 1995 04:15:12 GMT

Juanita Fischer ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Is it possible for me to download my inbox from my UNIX shell account to 
: read the mail off-line on my PC?  Would PCPINE accomplish this?  How 
: would I do it?  Thanks in advance for your help.

Exactly what I want to do too. Have you made any progress? I am working 
along the following tracks:

1. PCPINE - As far as I can see, that won't even set up unless your PC has 
a domain name etc, ie won't work with a shell account. Correct me if wrong...

2. There are off-line readers available. YARN is widely used. Don't know 
if it works with Pine. Anyone know? I am about to download it and experiment.

3. The Pine folders have a specific structure, described in tech-notes. I 
have thought of feeding it through a text manipulation program and then 
into a database (fields would be From, To, Date, Subject, and a Memo 
field for the message). I can see broadly how to do this, but time, time ...

Cheers,

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John Pettigrew ..............................
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