Subject: Re: PC-Pine for MAC

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:28:32 +0100 (BST)

On 31 Jul 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> is there a PC-Pine program for Macintosh operating system?

No.

> is there a similar mail program for Macintosh operating system?

Yes.

Mail Drop is free; Mulberry is commercial (about 30 pounds).

> please let me know of the ftp site where the program is available.

Mail Drop can be obtained from
	ftp://ackmo.baylor.edu/pub/bell/Mail_Drop/

For information about Mulberry e-mail its author at:
	Cyrus Daboo <[email-masked]>

See also The IMAP Connection for more information about IMAP clients:
	http://www.imap.org/

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 1 Aug 1996 12:32:35 GMT

>please let me know of the ftp site where the program is available.

Although there is no Mac-Pine, there are some freeware POP3/IMAP
clients on the Internet.  Eudora-Lite is very popular.  POPMail
from U. of MN is also very good (my favorite).  You can find them
in the info-mac archive, or the U. MI archive.

Cheers!

Jie
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:11:01 +0100 (BST)

[I admit I haven't looked at these programs recently and this response is
from memory of (possibly now obsolete) versions, but...]

Eudora and Eudora Lite are indeed very well spoken of.  However they use
the POP protocol and, certainly when I last looked at Eudora, not the IMAP
protocol.  I seem to recall Steve Dorner once being quoted as saying that
it never would.  This is fine if you have access to a POP server as well
as an IMAP server, but not all sites offer both.

POPmail III, when I looked at it a year or so back, supported POP2, POP3
and IMAP.  However it used IMAP in what I tend to call "the brain-damaged
way", using it to _trasnfer_ your messages off the IMAP server and down to
your local hard disk.  This then can make life difficult if the machine is
shared.  Also if you are away from your machine and want to refer back to
a message now no longer on the mail server.

Your best bet is to look for an IMAP client that manipulates the mail
in-place on the mail server (using IMAP as it was designed for) like Pine
and PC-Pine do.  Both of my suggestions (Mail Drop and Mulberry) do this.

Cheers,

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Rice)
Date: 5 Aug 1996 20:48:37 -0700

[email-masked] wrote:

: is there a PC-Pine program for Macintosh operating system?

: is there a similar mail program for Macintosh operating system?

: please let me know of the ftp site where the program is available.

There is Mailstorm in one of the mac directories on
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu

: thanks

: chetan

: e-mail "[email-masked]"
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