Subject: not-so-FAQ re: IMAP ??

From: [email-masked] (A. Andrew Brennan)
Date: 29 Apr 1995 00:25:28 GMT

Ok ... I've checked in the Pine technical notes, the comp.mail.pine
   directory in RTFM's Usenet FAQ archive and some of the notes with the
   IMAPd code I picked up for Linux.  Can't seem to find the answer to
   this - just hints.

   How's one setup anonymously accessible folders?  I'm interested in 
   dumping our old BULLETIN system and replacing it with folders that 
   people can access using the Pine mailer (or other IMAP clients).  
   Given what little I've seen so far, I'm not sure that this is the 
   implementation I want to use ... but it might be.

   andrew.  ([email-masked])

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:28:49 -0700

This is going to change when Pine converts to IMAP4.  The present way of
doing this is to set those folders up as subdirectories of ~ftp, as if
you were setting up an anonymous FTP server.  Then, create the file
	/etc/anonymous.newsgroups
The folders can then be accessed through Pine as collection
	*{server/anonymous}[]

As I said, this is going to change in IMAP4.  Most likely, the collection
name will become something like:
	{server/anonymous}#ftp#[]
Although there may be some other means of exporting public files besides
this.

-- Mark --

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 29 Apr 1995 11:57:25 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Mark Crispin) says:

(about how to set up anonymous IMAP access to FTP server files...)

>The folders can then be accessed through Pine as collection

    Can you say more about this?  Specifically, is it sufficient to
touch /etc/anonymous.newsgroups , or should it contain entries?  And
if it should, what should be the format of those entries?
    And it appears that the folders need to be specified as
        *{imap.server/anonymous}path/name/[]

    I make this claim in that the Pine home FTP server, ftp.cac.washington.edu
when accessed in the manner you give from Pine3.91, returns the contents of
the ~ftp chrooted top-level directory.  Text files in that directory are
readable by Pine, but subdirectories such as pine/ fail to be opened by
the IMAP client Pine.

    In other words, for me to access the archives of pine-info, which I
do on occasion from Pine, the proper format with 3.91 and IMAP2bis is
        Pine-info *{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]
...which, as a .pinerc entry, gives me as folders, all the months of
pine-info.  (Can't wait to see lots of other mail archives made available
this way instead of multi-kilo/megabyte files for anon FTP!)

Thanks...
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