Re: Non NB, mailers, was List silence

[Judy Evans <jae2>]

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Joel Lidov wrote:

> As I understand it, Pine is not the program that your _server_ uses
> to send and receive from the internet; you never see that.  It's a
> user program that runs between your terminal and the internal program
> in the server.  An offline mailer would need to know nothing about
> Pine, it just reads from the same source within the server that Pine
> does.  Assuming that you have one or another ordinary Unix server,
> any off-line mailer, going through your ISP (the PPP connection)
> would get the mail sent to your address on the York server.  (I think
> there's even a version of Pine that would run on your own PC and do
> this).

I was wondering about that: PCPine; I think it's free.  What
I don't know about is setting up the connection from here:
right now I use dial-up to do that.


  Most people appear to be using either the mailers built into
> the browsers, which are limited in their features, or Eudora (which
> comes in Lite or pay-for versions) or Pegasus (which is free, and has
> lots of features).

Yes, an off-list poster (list member) suggested Eudora and another
program -- I kept the post.

I only recently realised it would be possible to do this:
I knew there were off-line mailers but they didn't seem
to work with our system (Computing Service thought so too).
They do now, I believe.

I suspect a post to york.talk.technical would produce a
computer science student who'd help out!
(I'd forgotten that source.)

Judy Evans------Department of Politics---------jae2
using Dragon Voice Recognition Software------hence any voicoes
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