Subject: Offline composition/replies possible?

From: [email-masked] (Valerie Lambert)
Date: 20 Jun 1996 00:10:28 GMT

Hi,

I brought up an IMAP4 server on my Linux internet server, and an
appropriate IMAP4 client (Pine 3.94) on my Win95 laptop.  Okay, so I am
convinced that IMAP4 kicks POP3 butt for online mail manipulation of remote
and local maildrops.  Nowever, I cannot determine how to do offline replies
on the Win95 client box without resorting to tedious saving of messages to
plain text files, editing each reply in, say, Notepad, then waiting for my
next internet connection to import each text file, edit headers, and send
them off manually one at a time.  Please tell me there is a less painful
way to do this.  Is Pine the answer, or should I try Simeon or Embla?

Best regards,

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[email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:20:32 -0700 (PDT)

Valerie,
Pine does not yet support offline mode; it's planned for a future release.

I haven't kept up on which IMAP clients support offline and disconnected
operation, but one that does disconnected (the best of both worlds between
online and offline) is Sun's Roam client: 
 http://www.sun.com/solstice/Networking-products/sims/index.html

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Morton Lee Cohen)
Date: 21 Jun 1996 22:01:08 GMT

>  http://www.sun.com/solstice/Networking-products/sims/index.html

Hi Terry,

	Related question. My site is using PINE 3.91 and has the
Folder-Collection line configured to /Mail instead of /Work, and they have
that value fixed, but not the value to save postponed-msg folder, which I
added to the name of the file. Anyway, I was able to save the postponed-msg
folder to my /work directory, where I could upload and download the folder
to and NO Problem there. I can then edit the file on my home computer and
upload the file. The problem occurs after uploading the file, that PINE
doesn't recognize multiple messages within the Postponed-Msg Folder, after
I saved the changes. I never changed the header information, just the body
of the message and when I attempted to load the postponed-msg folder, it
didn't give me a choice of messages, but loaded the entire file as one
message.
	
	When PINE includes the ability to postpone messages, so users can
reply offline to interesting messages, tell the programmers to allow for
users to save messages in another editor, like Qedit or Word, without the
user reformatting the message. I can download the file from the server.
Delete the file on the server. Upload the file to the server and not
editing the file, PINE reads the multiple messages.

	What can I do to have PINE read the edited file, correctly? 

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Morton Lee Cohen    --- E-Mail [email-masked]
Resume' : Creator of "I Dream of Jeannie"  - 1961  and
         Creator and Developer of "XUXA" - 1965