Subject: PC-Pine for Windows 3.91

From: [email-masked] (Harold Kurth)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 13:43:31 GMT

can anyone point me to where I can find information for configuring PC 
Pine for a POP3 Server?? Can it be done????

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From: "Vladimir Solnicky (Vladimír Solnický) at Opava.UTIA.CAS.Cz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:35:56 -0200 (CDT)

> Pine for a POP3 Server?? Can it be done????

Yes. Use `{host.domain/pop3}mailboxname' folder specification. But this is
(I think) undocumented and not supported. If it is possible, use IMAP
instead.

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From: Davy Cheung <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Jun 1995 11:53:07 GMT

>Pine for a POP3 Server?? Can it be done????

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that Pine, by its 
nature, runs over IMAP2bis only.

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Davy

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:31:22 -0700 (PDT)

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> (I think) undocumented and not supported. If it is possible, use IMAP

Actually, the pop3 driver is not built into PC-Pine as distributed...

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From: Davy Cheung <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:28:40 +0800

Hello,

On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Mark Crispin wrote:

> The syntax is a /pop3 switch inside the network spec, e.g. {server/pop3}.
> POP3 doesn't support folders, so no folder name is needed.

Oh! I see... Sorry for my ignorance. Thank you.

But I like to use Pine's IMAP more, as I can read the folders in my home 
directory. :>

> There is *no* POP3 offline support in 3.91.  POP3 offline support will
> appear in the future, as an incidental of IMAP4 disconnected support.

That means there will also be "offline" IMAP support? That's great.

Regards,
Davy

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:06:18 -0700

> nature, runs over IMAP2bis only.

Here are the facts:

Pine 3.91 has POP3 support, in that it will use POP3 as if it were IMAP
(only the Deleted status is meaningful, and if you don't expunge then all
the flags get cleared).

However, 3.91's POP3 code has a rather serious bug in memory management
which keeps it from being very useful; it's likely to crash if you try it.
If you rebuild 3.91 using the imap-3.6.BETA toolkit (instead of the 3.5
version that's distributed with 3.91), it'll fix this bug.

-- Mark --

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