Subject: PC-Pine locking up while processing

From: Marc DVer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:50:20 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

I would like to deploy Pine here, but one of the things that's
unacceptable to the people here is the behavior of the program not
responding to user input while pine is downloading mail.  It makes the
program appear to freeze up.  I've seen this on different computers and
different platforms.  Is there a way around this?

Sincerely,
Marc DVer

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:45:13 +0800 (GMT)

> different platforms.  Is there a way around this?

Yes.  You could deploy something like Outlook.  There will be no confusion
on the part of the end-user.  When Outlook "appears" to be frozen it will
*really* be frozen.

Outlook (sometimes referred to as LookOut!) also has the interesting
feature of not always quitting when you exit.  It sometimes sits around
lost in the background.  It makes it impossible to start it again (unless
you know to kill it with task manager).

Sorry, for the rant.  Just having another ExcedrinMS day.  :-)

Ed

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:15:54 -0400 (EDT)

>different platforms.  Is there a way around this?

Use PINE for mail *reading* then, and use fetchmail for
downloading mail.  This works fine unless you're using IMAP with
remote directories.  fetchmail will download mail only, with the
option of also leaving mail on server.

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