On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:58:53 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Sam Heywood,
> I never used PC-PINE, noting that it supported IMAP but not POP3. I use NWCACHE
> with DR-DOS 7.03, note that NWCACHE is in AUTOEXEC.BAT and not CONFIG.SYS. You
> might possibly run 'NWCACHE -' before starting PC-PINE and then run that NWCACHE
> line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT after exiting PC-PINE: sort of a kludge. You might
> also try going to http://www.lineo.com/support/archive/drdos/drdos.html
> I haven't been there recently. If I go with PC-PINE, it might be the OS/2 Warp
> version. I believe that supports POP3 as well as IMAP.
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Hello fellow Arachnids:
PC-PINE, v.3.96 for DOS will not work at all with a POP3 server. So says
the documentation. I tried to use it to connect to a POP3 server and
had no success. Yep, I suppose the documentation is correct. According
to some fellow newsgroup subscribers at "comp.mail.pine", the newer Winbloze
versions are compatible with POP3.
Using PC-PINE for DOS, I am happy to report a 100% success rate in all my
attempts to connect to the IMAP servers at "mail.subdimension.com" and
at "pop.telebot.net" That's right, 100% success, no exageration. With
some other DOS email clients, designed for POP3 rather than for IMAP, I can
report only a very sporadic success rate in attempting to connect with the
aforementioned IMAP servers. Also with PC-PINE, I can view newsgroup posts
but cannot reply to a post or send a post. I believe PC-PINE is supposed
to be capable of sending posts as well as retrieving them. Maybe I'm doing
something wrong. Sending posts and replying to posts in newsgroups doesn't
work for me. PC-PINE works great for sending ordinary email messages.
As for MWCACHE, I now load it last, so that I may easily unload it before
going into PC-PINE. When trying to compose a message, PC-PINE always
crashes if NWCACHE is loaded. Never any problems as long as NWCACHE is not
loaded.
I just thought you guys would like to know of the results you can expect
if you use PC-PINE to get into an IMAP server.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
