RE: downloading email files

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, mp wrote:

> 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\"
>

This is true unless and until your mail is moved to a separate IMAP
server, as recently happened to all accounts at IU. Messages (including
all folders) are now stored on that remote server, which is inaccessible
by ftp. What was once a routine download of a "folder" must now be the
more elaborate process of exporting all messages to a file on the
(different) ftp-accessible server providing Pine, then downloading that
file and deleting the messages in the folder on the remote IMAP
server. It's a different process, but it works. The advantage is that
you can manage multiple IMAP accounts with most GUI email clients,
generally not possible with older POP servers (irrelevant to those who
telnet to their Pine accounts exclusively!)

   Dorothy

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