From: Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 00:02:01 PDT
To: ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall)
Subject: Re: PGP and Offline Mail/News
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> 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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