Subject: possible pine protocol problem?

From: Dean Barnard <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:08:01 -0400 (EDT)

Recently my college changed to pine, and I have approximately 20 folders
with mail messages in the previous system.  Is there any way to transfer a
complete folder with its messages to my pine account, or must I mail
myself each message individually, one folder at a time, and create a new
folder in pine?

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:36:30 +0800 (GMT)

> myself each message individually, one folder at a time, and create a new

	Yes, there are ways.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:46:21 +0100

On 17 Oct 1996, Dean Barnard wrote:

> complete folder with its messages to my pine account.

Chances are pine can read the existing folders as they are.  You
don't give enough information, but here we have pine reading
mbox's and MH folders happily as well as incoming mail on IMAP and
POP3 servers.  Pine is THE tool for reading mail on multiple systems
and in multiple formats.

You don't give enough information about your old system for me
to give details, but with luck your sysadms will have figured
out what needs to be done.  They should set up a default pine.conf
which allows you to read folders created by your previous set up.

-jeff goldberg

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