RE: downloading email files

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At 05:22 AM 5/27/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Tnx to Moore, Bailler & Day for lucid input. I don't use PC-resident PINE,
>just the system PINEs. I'm aware of FTP but have never indulged. However
>will try the recommended procedures, and if I bumble, may get back to you
>direct. Much thanks for the help.  Ted Stannard
>
>
>==== Prof. & Mrs. R.E.Stannard Jr. (Ted & Femmy), JMC Dept [226],

I have used Pine on a shell account on my ISP for the last five years
(although less so in the last year, as I have standardized more on
Eudora with win 3.1 -- my wife is able to use the same program)

If you move your messages from the IN-BOX on pine to other
folders, (or even if you only have one) you can also download
the folder itself without "exporting" it to a text file. Pine
stores the messages in each box with all header info etc.,
in ascii, and usually in a private subdirectory on your server
-- something like
    "\usr\s\stannard\mail\"

You have to root around or ask someone who can give you the path.
Then just "ftp" the whole fine down.

-pjd