Subject: Reading PINE messages on a standalone PC

From: [email-masked] (User)
Date: 27 Jan 1996 10:49:51 GMT

I have a limited file space on a PINE based email system which I telnet
onto. To gain more space, I have FTPed some of my old PINE folders onto a
PC.  Is there any software that will allow me to read and file these
messages on my desktop (not connected to any network) PC?  I have tried
using Pegasus mail to access them, but it will not accept the files. 
Alternately, the files appear to plain text, so I could write a program to
access them, but there appears to be no end of message markers, so there
is no easy way to break the files up.  The crudest solution is to use a
text file viewer, but since my files are upwards of 500k this makes
finding any individual message difficult, and deleting unwanted messages
very tedious.  Any suggestions?

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Nielsen)
Date: 27 Jan 1996 11:20:02 -0700

>very tedious.  Any suggestions?

Since the system you are getting the mail from supports tcp/ip, you
would probably have the best success if you can get it to send you the
mail with a POP server.  Then you can use PINE,  Pegasus or whatever
on your PC to read the mail.  My ISP is set up so that I can use PINE
from the shell menu of their machine or retrieve any mail using a POP
client to my PC for local reading.  When I originate a message, it
gets sent to the ISP by smtp.  I use PINE with Linux and Pegasus with
Windows 95 in a dual-boot configuration.  They both work very well for
this purpose.