A while ago some one here (from England) mentioned a program he was involved with that was an offline mail reader that allowed one to add external protocols like PGP. He gave an FTP site (also in England). The program was called something like APPNEWS. I downloaded it, looked at it, and archived it until I could put time into installing it with my connection and work out the bugs of dynamic addressing. Now was the time, but I have lost the program. Please help me.
Perry queried earlier about what off-line readers people use. I use Pop-mail and Eudora, but neither are really friendly with adding externals. The problem I want to overcome is providing multiple users on a single machine with security. Pop-mail and Eudora are designed to be used by a single user and a personal (hopefully secure) machine. The solution currently implemented is to have users save mail only to floppy. Both mailers will create personal directories, but these can be accessed both within and from outside the program. I would like to add PGP (or another scheme) so that *all* saved messages (or ones so desired) are encrypted. This would use the user's password and would be automatic.
check out the newly released PCPINE. It is a pine client for IBMpc's. It will run either stand alone (with packet drivers, using WATTCP), under FTP's PC/TCP package, or under Novell. (There are three different files, one for each configuration). To use it you need to get a mail server running the IMAP protocol daemon 'imapd'. It is like POP but has more advanced features. You can find both at ftp.cac.washington.edu in pine or pub/pine. c-client.tar.Z <- has impad for unix boxes pcpine_p.zip packet driver version pcpine_n.zip novell version pcpine_f.zip ftp pctcp version pcpine has mostly all the PINE features, and is easily configured for external mail processing add ons (like gif viewers and crypto stuff). (note: 'easy' is a relative term :)
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