Subject: Can Save transfer from one mail host to another?

From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:55:54 GMT

I'd like to use PINE to transfer email(s) from a folder on
one mail host (say A), to a folder (with same or different name) 
on a different mail host (say B).

Is this possible in principle?  If so, how does the syntax
look for the destination folder on the other host?

All that I have succeeded in achieving so far is creating
some bizarrely-named mail folders on the same host that the
mail is starting from.  I'm a little worried that it might
not be possible at all, judging from the prompt -

  SAVE to folder in <mail/[] on foo.bar.baz> [saved-messages] : 

(where "foo.bar.baz" is the system on which the mail is 
currently sitting, i.e A in the above question).

If it makes any difference, I'm quite happy to log on to A
or to B and run PINE there.  I'm not necessarily trying to do
this from a third host, C!!!  I just want to move these mail
items from one set of mail folders to another.

p.s one of the systems has to be PINE 3.91, as I don't have
a newer version available for it.  If this is an issue.

many thanks
-- 
Alan

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:28:29 +0000

On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

:>I'd like to use PINE to transfer email(s) from a folder on
:>one mail host (say A), to a folder (with same or different name)
:>on a different mail host (say B).
:>
:>Is this possible in principle?  If so, how does the syntax
:>look for the destination folder on the other host?
:>

Well, here is one way of doing it.
Declare a folder collection on the target system. Quit and reenter if
necessary (which will at some point cause you to quuote the password for
the target system).

select the individual or group of messages to be Saved, but instead of
responding to the prompt us the "To Folders" option (^T), move to the
relevant collection, give a name, and it will all happen.

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