Subject: Q: Using pine Offline with IMAP?

From: Srinivasa SA <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:10:19 +0900

Is it possible to use pine with IMAP server for offline mail reading
and replying. Specifically I am looking at a facility, similar to what is 
available in Netscape 4.06 and above. 

What I want to do is:
1. Dial a PPP account.
2. Open Pine/PC-Pine and get all the message headers from IMAP server
3. Download specific message folders for offline reading
4. Disconnect PPP connection
5. Read/answer mails, manipulate mail folders.
6. Dial my PPP account
7. Update all my mail folder changes to IMAP server/Send queued mails etc... 
8. Done

Can this be done in PC-Pine 4.10 ? If so, could you kind-hearted people
tellme how / direct me to appropriate document?

Thanks in advance.
-Sas

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:48:13 -0700 (PDT)

*** Srinivasa SA ([email-masked]) wrote Today:

:) Is it possible to use pine with IMAP server for offline mail reading
:) and replying. Specifically I am looking at a facility, similar to what is 
:) available in Netscape 4.06 and above. 
:) 
:) What I want to do is:
:) 1. Dial a PPP account.
:) 2. Open Pine/PC-Pine and get all the message headers from IMAP server
:) 3. Download specific message folders for offline reading
:) 4. Disconnect PPP connection
:) 5. Read/answer mails, manipulate mail folders.
:) 6. Dial my PPP account
:) 7. Update all my mail folder changes to IMAP server/Send queued mails etc... 
:) 8. Done
:) 

  I did it at least in Unix pine, and I expect the way I will describe you
here will work in PC-pine also. The trick consists in changing the path of
your inbox. Say in step 3. above you save messages to a folder called
"download", then you could either go to your configuration and change the
location of your INBOX to be the complete path of this folder or restart
PINE with another .pinerc whose inbox location is the path of this folder.
There you can work offline and once you are done repeat the process
backwards (change your inbox again to be your old inbox location).

  Unfortunately there is no way (in unix pine) to do this with a few
keystrokes, say, having a list of INBOXes that you can select at any time,
making one of them the default, kind of choosing folder collection or
printer. I think this would be useful for you and I still don't see why the
pine team does not allow you such a thing. Any enlightening here would be
appreciated.

  Have a nice day,

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html