Subject: PC-Pine Saving folders remotely

From: Bill Fisher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:32:09 -0700

I have been setting up PC-Pine and I prefer to use "ELM-style" save
concept for incoming and outgoing messages through FCC to the sender and 
recipients.

However, I want to save this information remotely on my server at work
so that I can use PC-Pine on whatever computer I am on and still have
complete access to the folders of saved mail.

Currently, PC-Pine is saving the folders locally, which I do NOT want.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can correct this?

Thank you.

Bill Fisher
[email-masked]

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From: Andrew J Pardoe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:58:57 -0700

To save folders remotely on your PC-Pine, enter the remote computer's name
and the location of the folders under the "folder-collections" section in
setup. For example, on my PC at work I have it reading "homer/mail/[]" to
access the folders on a computer called "homer" (which is my "mail"
computer at the UW.)

On my OS/2 Pine at home I have both "homer.u.washington.edu/mail/[]" and a
local directory. (I'm not sure why I don't have the full address on my
work machine...I guess it doesn't matter if the domain name is the same)

Two cautions: the remote computer must support IMAP (or so the docs say)
and, less importantly, if your remote system is unix the mail folder names
are "saved-messages", "sent-mail", etc. PC-Pine is configured to use 8.3
names like saved.mtx sent.mtx (or whatever.) You may wish to change them
for compatibility with the existing mail folders on the unix system. I
don't know if that's a problem with DOS/Win machines because I renamed my
local folders with the long file names on my OS/2 machine and have no
local folders on my DOS/Win machine.

Enjoy!

Andrew Pardoe

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:05:00 -0700 (PDT)

Andrew,
The correct syntax for your remote folders is

  {mailerXX.u.washington.edu}mail/[]

(Where XX is the specific mail server you use; Homer is a front-end
machine... but this part is UW-specific, and not relevant to others on
this list.)

-teg