Hi
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RM>> UKA_PPP is for offline use !!!
RM>> PINE is for online use ...
t> How do you say UKA_PPP is for offline use? UKA_PPP sends (SMTP) and
t> receives (POP3) email, and sends and receives news messages.
Yes ... but the messages you want to send are prepared.
UKA_PPP sends them in a batch, receives messages waiting for retrieval, and
ready.
PINE doesn't send and receive all messages at once.
Instead you can choose which message you want to read, and this particular
message is retrieved.
So with PINE you war ONLINE while reading, and with UKA_PPP you don't have
to. (so Pine is 'Online', und UKA_PPP is 'offline' :)
RM>> It only loads the HEADERS of the messages.
RM>> If you want to read the message, you press enter, and that message
RM>> is loaded.
t> That sounds like IMAP as opposed to POP3. Most Internet users can't
t> use IMAP. Bluegrass Net supported IMAP for a time, then discontinued
t> because of security problems.
There are no additional security reasons !
The reason why so few servers support IMAP is, that it uses more diskspace.
(people often leave Mail on the server, with POP3 they are forced to
download it, and usually delete it on the server)
t> If one knows the newsgroups of interest with DOS-PINE and does not
t> have to search, then DOS-PINE has no problem with memory?
No
t> What if the download is 400 KB? Is that put in memory or directly
t> downloaded to disk?
Attachments directly to disk IMHO
Text goes to memory ... but I haven't had problems with this ..
t> But then why can't the full list of newsgroups be downloaded direct to
t> disk, instead of overloading memory?
Ask the author, and not me :)
t> Thomas Mueller
CU, Ricsi
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