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*** This file is provided with no support, if you encounter
*** an error please report it to eyerewl@qed.net but I make no
*** claims to acually fix the reported error.
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This is Pine for OS/2, a text mode IMAP-capable mail and news
client for 32-bit OS/2, including OS/2 version 2.0 and later.
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Included: Pine.exe (Standard Window/Fullscreen client)
Pinefs.exe (Fullscreen ONLY exe)
Pico.exe (Standard Windows/Fullscreen editor)
This version of Pine is a network client, and requires you to
have IBM TCP/IP 2.0 or later installed. The OS/2 Warp IAK is
sufficient to run this program across either a SLIP or PPP
link.
Note on mailboxes: The default mailbox type uses the IMAP
v2bis protocol. To use IMAP, you will need to be connecting
to a mail server with an IMAP server that supports IMAP
version 2 or later. Pine may also be used with POP v2 or v3
servers, but is not as functional by a large margin.
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POP3 NOTE: Some problems have been reported with the POP3
support in previous versions of the Pine OS/2 port.
However, these seem to be configuration related and only
occur with some systems - the porter has been as yet unable
to either reproduce the problem or track down its source.
If you can convince your service provider to run an imap
server rather than having to rely entirely on the somewhat
archaic pop3 protocol, then do so TODAY. Using Pine over
IMAP is a far better solution to any existing alternatives,
and has many MANY useful features above and beyond that
pop3 can provide.
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To define an IMAP mailbox, you enter the following:
{your.mail.server.fdqn}INBOX for your standard mailbox
{your.mail.server.fdqn}path/folder for other mail folders
[FDQN means "fully qualified domain name", meaning the full
hostname of your provider, including the domain portion]
To define a POP3 style mailbox, you enter:
{your.mail.server.fdqn/pop3}INBOX
Note that POP only supports one mailbox on your server - that
is the standard mailbox for incoming mail. With IMAP, you can
access other folders on that mailbox, and mailboxes on other
servers as well, all in the same session. If you have IMAP
available, you can also use your provider's system for storage
of folders, and definition of multiple incoming folders (enable
the configuration option if you wish to do this), and use
procmail or some other mail filtering system on your provider's
machine to automatically move incoming mail into the correct
folder.
This version of Pine uses smtp delivery only, and is not
suitable for an OS/2 system set up as a mail server. That
would require a great many changes to the c-client system
(for OS/2, at least). Before you can send mail you MUST have
a valid smtp-server entry in your PINERC. Use S)etup C)config
to enter or modify your current smtp server. When running
Pine for the first time on your machine, it will request these
sorts of details, but many people do not enter them correctly
and may have to correct these before pine will become functional.
Local mail folders created and maintained by PineOS2 are in
"dawz" format, which is identical to the format used by the
MSDOS and Windows builds of Pine (this is NOT the same format
that most UNIX systems use, and you should not attempt to edit
or modify these files in any way except via Pine). This version
of Pine is also able to read "Berkeley" style mail folders, but
only in read-only mode. Since you can copy between folders using
the S)ave command from the mail folder index, you can move mail
freely from Berkeley format mail folders to dawz, but not the
reverse.
If you wish to log in automatically to your server without
having to specify a login name or password each time, create
an empty file called "PINE.PWD" in the same directory where
Pine creates its PINERC configuration file. Something similar
to the following will do that:
echo off >PINE.PWD
Before running Pine, set either the HOME environment variable
or the PINEHOME variable (if you have other software that
uses HOME but wish to place Pine elsewhere) in your
CONFIG.SYS - and remember to reboot.
Files in the "bin" subdirectory should be placed somewhere in
your PATH. Files in the "dll" subdirectory should be placed
in a directory that is specified in your LIBPATH setting in
CONFIG.SYS. Files under the "emx" subdirectory should also
be placed into a directory in your LIBPATH, but check first
to ensure that there are no other files of the same name on
your system. These files come from the EMX runtime version
0.9b, and you will need these or the equivalent later versions
to run Pine without problems.
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