Subject: Pine for the Macintosh?

From: [email-masked] (David Langs)
Date: 7 Jan 1996 20:10:31 GMT

Hi:

We have both Unix machines and Macs in our lab, and I have just recently
installed pine on our Unix machines, and so far I like it.  I find the IMAP
feature intriguing.  It would be nice if people who have Macs in their 
offices could remotely access their mail folders on the Unix machines, but
I have so far not been able to find a version of Pine for the Macintosh.  Does
such a thing exist, and if so where can I get it?  If not, is there one in
the works?

This is probably a frequently asked question, but I am new to this group.

Thanks.

                                         Dave Langs
                                         [email-masked]

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From: Andy McNiece <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:39:30 -0800 (PST)

I am using Eudora (MAC Version) rather than Pine.  It works very well.
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:55:14 -0800 (PST)

Dave,
See http://www.washington.edu/imap
or
    ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.software

for a list of IMAP software we know about, including Mac clients.

We have a feasibility study underway for a Mac Pine, but it's too soon to
predict the outcome.

-teg

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 09:12:33 -0800

We are currently doing experiments to "determine the feasibility of a Mac
port."  A Mac port of Pine, if one is released, would be very much like
Windows Pine -- that is, it would be text-oriented with only a minimal
amount of GUI features (some menu and mouse action).  The goal is to keep
the Pine interface more or less constant across ports.

There are also native IMAP clients for the Mac such as Mailstrom and
MailDrop.  I like MailDrop a lot, and I expect to see a demonstration of
the latest Mailstrom later today.  See
	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.software
for more information about these and other clients.

> such a thing exist, and if so where can I get it?  If not, is there one in

-- Mark --

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:45:17 -0800

> such a thing exist, and if so where can I get it?  If not, is there one in

The only thing for the mac at the moment (and I'd like to be wrong about
this!) is to open up a mac terminal program like NCSA Telnet or Zterm
(depending on your connection), and run pine remotely on the unix box. 
Since pine is an all-text e-mail program, it works on any dumb terminal
pretty much as well as on the unix machine itself. The only thing you
have to do is help your users learn to use Telnet, which is no big chore. 
This, of course, assumes that they know how to use unix already.  :-)

				Ian