Subject: Re: Addressbook: PC-Pine reading unix addressbook possible?

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:10:04 -0800 (PST)

It's not currently possible to use IMAP or the syntax used for remote
folders to access remote address books. If you have access to the
addressbook files through a remote filesystem between the systems then you
should be able to use the same file for both. 

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

On 27 Feb 1997, Martin Saxer wrote:

> Here's what I'm trying to do.
> 
> I've currently got Pine 3.95 running on my unix shell account.  I dial-in
> and use PC-Pine and Pine/os2 from two different locations.  Ideally I'd
> like to have one central addressbook so that all my changes would be
> activated instantly.  The obvious choice for this is my unix addressbook
> since it is always accessible.
> 
> Now my problem...I was completely unable to get PC-Pine to find my
> addressbook, even when following the same format in the setup menu that I
> use to have PC-Pine access my unix mail folders (which works great!).
> 
> So..my questions to the Pine gurus here are:
> 1) Is the above possible?
> 2) If so, what does a sample line look like?
> 
> thanks,
> martin
> 
> 
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>  Martin Saxer   [email-masked]   206.323.8645 (h)   206.621.1218 (w)
> 
>

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From: Martin Saxer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:47:15 -0800 ()

Thanks for the info Steve.

I was just looking on the IMAP home page and noticed mention of ACAP,
which looks to be exactly what I need to implement the use of remote
addressbooks.  Any idea what sort of schedule there is for
implementation of ACAP in Pine, or if it is planned at all?  The ACAP
home page mentions something about the UW possibly developing their own
implementation of ACAP.

When you refer to a "remote filesystem" are you talking about mounting a
filesystem?  Since I use a local ISP here in Seattle I doubt they'd let
me do that for security reasons.  Or are you referring to something
else?

thanks again,
martin

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:10:42 -0800 (PST)

> home page mentions something about the UW possibly developing their own

It is still planned but there is no schedule and no work has been done on
it yet. The ACAP spec is still a moving target.
 
> me do that for security reasons.  Or are you referring to something

That's right, I was talking about a general purpose remote filesystem. In
your situation there is probably no way to do a remote addressbook with
the current pine.

Steve