Subject: IMAP accessible pine-info archives

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:43:09 +0000 (GMT)

I have some questions about accessing the pine-info archives at

 *{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]

which is described here:

 http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/

It's great that the UW makes these archives available via IMAP
and I'd love it if they (or someone) would make the
comp.mail.pine archives available via IMAP (maybe Google will do
that?!).

Here are my questions:

1) When I access one of these folders I get messages like this:

--- begin journal excerpt ---
Opening "pine-info.2001.02"
{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}#public/pine/pin : Mailbox vulnerable - directory /ftp/world/pine
{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}#public/pine/pin : Unable to parse internal date:  0-???-1970 00:
Folder "pine-info.2001.02" opened with 142 messages READONLY
--- end journal excerpt ---

Does the "Mailbox vulnerable" message mean that this server isn't
configured correctly or is this just the way that public folders
work? (I don't have any experience with public folders.)

2) Is this:

 *{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]

the best way to specify the collection or is it better to use the
notation that's used in the journal (i.e., "#public")?

3) It seems to work when I put this in either my
folder-collections or my news-collections? Is there any
disadvantage to listing it in my news-collections? I'd rather put
it in my news-collections so I can have it in my pinerc-generic,
which I discuss here:

 http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/sharing/

4) This is a request: It would be great if the current folder
(pine-info.2001.02 at the moment) could be linked to a folder
called "current" so I could put:

 {ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/current,

in my incoming folder list and it would always open the current
archive.

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:17:34 -0800 (PST)

*** Nancy McGough ([email-masked]) wrote today:

:) 4) This is a request: It would be great if the current folder
:) (pine-info.2001.02 at the moment) could be linked to a folder
:) called "current" so I could put:
:)
:)  {ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/current,
:)
:) in my incoming folder list and it would always open the current
:) archive.

If you were on a unix environment I would tell you that you define the
path to be

{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/$DATE

where date is a generated shell variable, maybe you can do something along
those lines in windows.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/