Subject: Using Pine 2.93 on Windows 95

From: [email-masked] (Jeffrey B. Workman)
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:15:46 GMT

I just downloaded Pine for Windows 95 and I can't get it to work.

I cannot compose messages with it.  Whenever I try to compose a message I
get this error message: "Can't send message without an open remote folder"

I do not understand why it is telling me this.  I have tried every
different configuration that I can think of.

By the way I am running my own SMTP and NNTP daemons on this machine. 
Pine should not have any problems opening whatever files it needs since
there are no "permissions" in the Windows 95 file system.

I *can* get it to read news from my server but it doesn't recognize any
groups that have more than three parts to the newsgroup name (eg.
foo.bar.bar) but anything longer than this it will not recognize (eg.
alt.foo.bar.bar).

Could somebody *please* tell me what to put in my pinerc file so I can
use pine.  I really like the interface.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Geggus)
Date: 20 May 1996 13:52:10 GMT

Jeffrey B. Workman ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I just downloaded Pine for Windows 95 and I can't get it to work.

use a real OS ;-)

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Gerald Pfeifer)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:02:48 GMT

> I just downloaded Pine for Windows 95 and I can't get it to work.

It's been working very fine for me.

> get this error message: "Can't send message without an open remote folder"

Well, that should be quite self-explanatory: Before you are allowed to
compose a message, you have to connect to some Mail Server, which...

> By the way I am running my own SMTP and NNTP daemons on this machine. 

...currently has to be an IMAP server.

Hope this helps,
Gerald
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