Subject: Newbie Questions

From: Tim Simpson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:39:41 GMT

hello,
	I have just downloaded a copy of pine 3.91 and a couple of points 
	come up after reading the tech notes. Perhaps someone could answer 
	these or point me in the direction of the FAQ.

1.	Can pine be used for posting to usenet newsgroups

	the tech notes seem to suggest that it can open netnews folders in 
	read only mode. Or is it that it can only read the posted articles 
	but when you reply it creates a new article. Perhaps someone can 
	elucidate further.

2.	How does Imap work the tech notes do not seem to fully explain how 
	you communicate with it. How does your incoming mail get from 
	sendmail or whatever is used to receive it to imap. Or does imap 
	simply read your unix mailbox when requied and pass these to the 
	pine client.

TIA

best wishes

Tim
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 10:56:59 +0100 (BST)

> 1.	Can pine be used for posting to usenet newsgroups

Yes, providing you have access to an NNTP server (news server) that you 
are allowed to post articles to without having to supply it with any 
authentication information (username and password).

> 	but when you reply it creates a new article. Perhaps someone can 

Pine can use either the IMAP or NNTP protocols to read Usenet News 
articles.  The former only works if your IMAP server has access to the 
filestore holding the Usenet News files and has been properly configured.

The simplest way is to use NNTP.

Start Pine and, at the Main Menu, go into the Setup Configuration screen 
(by typing "S" then "C").  Now move down to the "nntp-server" variable 
and use the Add (A) command to set its value to the full IP name of your 
news server.  This often looks something like "news.blah.blah.blah".  
Leave the Setup Configuration screen using Exit (E), and try doing a List 
Folders (L).  You should see a "News-collection" appears.

Move the cursor down to this and subscribe to some newsgroups using the 
Subscribe (A) command.

Note that using NNTP in this way to read news keeps the list of 
subscribed newsgroups and read articles (usually in a file called 
".newsrc" for UNIX) on the computer you're running Pine on.  The 
advantage of reading Usenet News via IMAP is that the IMAP server itself 
maintains the ".newsrc" file, so you get to see the same lists of 
subscribed newsgroups and read articles no matter which machine you are 
reading from.

> 	simply read your unix mailbox when requied and pass these to the 

Sendmail delivers arriving messages into your usualy mailbox entirely 
normally.  The IMAP daemon then gives you access to this mailbox (and any 
other mail folders you create).  There is no direct communication between 
sendmail and the IMAP daemon.

You can find more information, and the FAQ, about Pine at the Pine 
Information Centre on the World-Wide Web:

	http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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