Subject: Re: Need help setting up PC-PINE

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:32:53 -0800 (PST)

Eric,
It turns out that pc-pine doesn't support the POP driver yet,
but this will be fixed in the initial pc-pine 4.x release which
will be based on the imap-4 toolkit.  

Note1: The next version of pine/pc-pine will be 3.93, a bug-fix
       release that will still be based on the earlier imap toolkit.

Note2: Even the upcoming 4.x version won't have pop's traditional offline
       support --that will come *after* the initial 4.x release, for both
       pc-pine and unix pine.)

Did you ever get the local inbox access to work (by either quoting the
string or eliminating the blanks in the path name)?

-teg

On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Eric Penn wrote:

> Help!!
> 
> I'm trying to install PC-PINE.  I've extracted the archive, and placed it
> into its own directory.  When I run pine.exe it asks me where my inbox is
> stored.  I provide a path to my local inbox, and save it in the pinerc
> file.  Pine then beeps at me and tells me that no such folder exists!
> The line in pinerc reads:
>    inbox-path=C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET ACCESSORIES\INBOX
> which is a valid pathname.
> 
> I've checked the spelling, case (not that case should matter on a PC), and
> pathname.  All are correct.  I've tried it both with and without "inbox"
> on the end of the path...  I've tried it with and without a leading C:...
> I've tried putting my inbox in the root of C:...  I tried putting in the
> old-style short names for the long directory names...  All to no avail.
> 
> I have also tried adding a remote mailbox with the format
>    incoming-folders={mail.crl.com/pop3}INBOX
> This gets me an error message that I have an "invalid remote specification".
> I don't see how it is incorrect, but apparantly it is.
> 
> Pine hates me.  It won't read my INBOX locally, nor remotely.  I really want
> to use this program.  Pine may hate me, but I hate Eudora!  Can anyone help?
> 
> --
>    Eric Penn                                STUPID's three rules to life:
>   [email-masked]                             Stick with what you're good at,
>  http://www.crl.com/~stupid/                  Learn from your mistakes, and
> "stoo"                                         When in doubt, act stupid!
> 
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