Subject: Netscape and pine

From: [email-masked] (Gordon Larsen)
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 21:35:55 GMT

I would like to read my mail in a pine mailbox in Netscape.  If
possible, how is this done?  Also, could this be done with a Lotus
Ccmail box.

Gordon Larsen

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:29:44 +0100 (BST)

There is not really such a thing as a "Pine mailbox" ... Pine merely
access mail stored on the mail server in one of a number of common folder
formats.  The most commonly encountered is "Berkeley" format, as used by
most UNIX systems.

Pine can be configured to use direct access to the mailbox file, although
it is better for a number of reasons to instead configure it to use the
IMAP protocol to connect to an IMAP server.  (IMAP is a protocol designed
to allow remote mail clients such as Pine, Simeon, etc, to access mail on
the mail server.)

Netscape Navigator can use either direct file access or the POP protocol
to connect to a POP server.  (POP is a mail access protocol along the
lines of IMAP but with different/less functionality.)

So....

If you have direct access to your mailbox you MAY be able to use Navigator
to access your mail folder.

If you only have access to mail through an IMAP sverver you can't
(Navigator doesn't support IMAP).

If you have access to a POP server then you again can use Navigator.

I suggest you contact your local help deak/ISP to learn what options are
open to you and for assistance in using them.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Sami Tikka <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 23:54:53 -0200

> (Navigator doesn't support IMAP).

This could change in the near future. Somewhere on the Netscape WWW
server I saw a message saying Navigator will support IMAP at Q3 release.
This would definitely be a cool thing...

Sami

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:04:58 +0100 (BST)

...As long as it uses IMAP as it is intended: to manipulate the messages
remotely (instead of just using IMAP to do a POP-style "rip the messages
off the mail server and copy them onto your local disk area").

Cheers,