Subject: pine for MAC, and PC/Unix interactions...

From: thierry philipovitch <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:05:13 +0100

Hello,
I've two problems/questions which I guess to be easy.
1) Is there a version of Pine for Mac OS 7.x ?
2) I've just installed pc-pine on a PC running win95, and with an
ethernet card (I'm using the resident TCP/IP stack given iwth win95). I
would like to read my mail on a Unix machine connected to this PC. But I
can't access to my MBOX! Is there someone who could tell me what I
should install on my snmtp (unix) server to read my mails on my PC ?
note: I well specified in the pine configuration the name of the snmtp
server !

Thanks a lot in advance !
Thierry
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:02:41 +0100 (BST)

> 1) Is there a version of Pine for Mac OS 7.x ?

No.  However there are some alternatives (which make better use of the Mac
interface).  You may like to try out:

*  Mail Drop (free)
   See <URL:ftp://ackmo.baylor.edu/pub/bell/Mail_Drop/>
   (Get the latest development (d) or beta (b) version.)

*  Mulberry (commercial)
   See <URL:http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/cydasoft/Mulberry/Info.html>
   (Demo version available.)

A list of other IMAP clients (Mac and other platforms) can be found at The
IMAP Connection:

   <URL:http://www.imap.org/>

> note: I well specified in the pine configuration the name of the snmtp

[Please be careful when using acronyms: SNMP is a network management
protocol; SMTP is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol!]

In order to use PC-Pine to read mail from a UNIX machine that UNIX machine
must have an IMAP server installed and properly configured.  You then set
up PC-Pine to open an IMAP connection to this server to give access to
your mail folders.

In the first instance check whether an IMAP server has been set up on your
UNIX system.  If not, then that is the first step.  If there is one there
(and it is known to work) then there is a problem with your PC-Pine
configuration (which no-one can help with unless you descibe how it is
currently configured, the name of your IMAP server, etc.)

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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