Subject: pine for Linux, MS-DOS (wattcp), Win3.11 and Win95

From: Michelle Konzack <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:03:57 +0200

Hello, 

I need a mailystem which is compatibel for Linux, MS-DOS (wattcp), 
Win3.11 (win32s + tcp32b) and Win95. 

Is it possibel to compile pine for the required OS ? 

Is there maildir support ? (I use nfs als filesystem on all computers 
and with malbox you can shoot yourself...) 

Thanks in advance
Michelle

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From: Chris Devers <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:11:01 -0500 (EST)

> Is it possibel to compile pine for the required OS ?

Not sure about Win3.1, but otherwise yeah, this should be possible, using
either Cygwin for the Win95 machine [1] or just with PC-Pine [2].

Alternatively, you can just install it on the Linux machine[s], and then
access mail by connecting to it from the PCs with ssh or telnet. That way
all users work all mail from a single, easily maintainable source. (This
is how I used Pine for the first five years or so I used it... :)

But if you really want the mail client to run on the individual desktops
(note that with such old versions of Windows, this could be a great source
of future headaches), install Cygwin/Pine or regular PC-Pine and then try
to get mail off the Linux mail server via IMAP.

Either way, direct-on-server or IMAP, you can keep everything on the mail
server & so be pretty sure that maildir will work, if that's important --
no need to force it to work on Windows if you know it'll work on Linux...

[1] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_1.html#SEC2

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