Subject: Offline mail/news reader for Pine?

From: Spencer Phillips <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 15:55:29 -0500

Is there such a thing as an offline mail and news reader for Pine?

If so, where can I find it?  If there are more than one, which is best?

Thanks,

Spencer Phillips

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Burger)
Date: 22 Nov 1995 22:24:49 GMT

In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.951117155407.6463E@lute>,
>If so, where can I find it?  If there are more than one, which is best?

I'm also looking for this.  On a similar thread, someone suggested 
READMAIL, which I found and tried out.  Go to http://vsl.cnet.com and 
search on readmail.

The only problem with READMAIL is that none of the listing options 
show the TO field.  Often, I need to search through old mail folders 
(stored on my pc) for a particular message I sent someone.  READMAIL 
is not set up to do this.  A search with an ASCII editor is the usual 
course of action.

What I would like (I probably should add this to the next version of Pine 
wishlist thread) is a new command line switch for PC-Pine for an archive 
use.  

Right now, if you don't have the network drivers loaded, PC-Pine dumps 
you out and refuses to start.  It would be nice to be able to start 
PC-Pine with a command line switch so we can just use it to read our old 
mail folders, with the full folder command set, so we can create a new 
folder, scan old folders, copy particular messages to the new folder...

This would allow a DOS window to my Unix server with Pine running and my 
current folders available, and then another DOS window with PC-Pine (in 
read mode) reviewing my old folders on the local machine.

Hope someone on the Pine development team sees this.  Thanks.

-Jim

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:46:27 -0800 (PST)

Jim,
It's true that PC-Pine does not yet have an offline mode (this is planned
for next year and involves downloading pending mail, plus queing pending
replies), but I would have expected that pc-pine with the -f flag
would have worked for your needs...

-teg