Subject: Pine and remote folders

From: Farhad Dehghani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:07:00 +0200

My questions are somehow related to IMAP protocol.
You know that pine uses IMAP protocol for accessing remote mail-boxes 
and folders, and that IMAP protocol supports the three modes of operation: 
Online, Offline and Disconnected.

The fist question is: How can I control pine to use each one of these 
operation-modes? Is this possible at all?

The second question is: How can I control pine to fetch some specific 
e-mails instead of all the mail-box (This capability is also supported 
by IMAP). Is that possible at all?

The general question is: Does pine uses all the functionalities provided 
by IMAP?

Appreciate any help,

Farhad Dehghani
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:44:57 -0700 (PDT)

Short answer: No, Pine does not yet use all three access modes supported
by IMAP.  Only "online" is currently supported  --however, in that mode,
Pine does not immediately download the entire mailbox; it fetches enough
information to generate the caption for the Index screen.  Entire messages
are fetched on demand.

Offline and disconnected support are planned for the future.

-teg