PC-Pine for Windows

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After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.

While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine. Has
anyone tried this with Windows XP?

http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a
Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine). Please upgrade to Pine 4.58:
This new version fixes a major security vulnerability. (2.58mb)
 
(e-mail address removed) (Anony Mouse) wrote in
After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.

While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine.
Has anyone tried this with Windows XP?

http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers
running a Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine). Please upgrade to
Pine 4.58: This new version fixes a major security vulnerability.
(2.58mb)
Click to expand...

I haven't *yet*. Have you read through the Pine newsgroup?
comp.mail.pine
 
Anony said:
After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.

While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine. Has
anyone tried this with Windows XP?

http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a
Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine). Please upgrade to Pine 4.58:
This new version fixes a major security vulnerability. (2.58mb)
Click to expand...

I haven't used Pine under windows, but I have used it in various
Unix/Linux systems. It's easy to use and reliable, but be aware that
it is a "DOS" program. That is, it runs in a command window. It does
use a layout and menu keys, using character positioning. But there is
no GUI in the modern sense.

See the "Getting Started with Pine" document at your referenced site
for what it looks like, if I'm not making any sense. :)

As long as that's OK for you, then Pine is a good choice. I think
most peole would prefer a more modern interface.

Terry
 
Anony said:
After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.
Click to expand...
While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine. Has
anyone tried this with Windows XP?
Click to expand...

No, but it's configurable and rock solid under *nix.

If it runs on XP, I'm sure you'd be happy with it's bug-freeness.

Let us know...
 
[email protected] (Anony Mouse) said:
After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.
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I've been using Pegasus 3.12c for years, haven't encountered any bugs,
but perhaps you're using it differently (I don't access email from any
outside accounts, for instance).
 
I've been using Pegasus 3.12c for years, haven't encountered any bugs,
but perhaps you're using it differently (I don't access email from any
outside accounts, for instance).
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3.12c is excellent. The 4 series added a lot of advanced features,
but perhaps too quickly. 4.02a was okay, but then things started to
go downhill. 4.10 and 4.11 were disasters. 4.12a is a little better,
but not up to the 3.12c standard.
 
3.12c is excellent. The 4 series added a lot of advanced
features, but perhaps too quickly. 4.02a was okay, but then
things started to go downhill. 4.10 and 4.11 were disasters.
4.12a is a little better, but not up to the 3.12c standard.
Click to expand...
Can you post a copy of 3.12c to alt.binaries.freeware?
 
(e-mail address removed) (Anony Mouse) wrote in
While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine. Has
anyone tried this with Windows XP?
Click to expand...

The main thing to be aware of is that PCPine (or any version of Pine) does
not work well will pop3 - you really need an imap mail account or Pine will
not update properly.

Fast and solid and quite useable even though not along standard Windows
keystroke lines.
 
After trying all the freeware email programs I settled on Pegasus
Mail, but after a year with it I'm giving up because it's just too
buggy, and they don't fix it.

While looking at Thunderbird and others, I came across PC-Pine. Has
anyone tried this with Windows XP?

http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a
Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine). Please upgrade to Pine 4.58:
This new version fixes a major security vulnerability. (2.58mb)
Click to expand...

I did download and try PC-Pine 4.58, and this is a report on my
findings.

I chose to download the smaller zip file (2.1mb.) and tried to connect
to my imap server with it. (It is also supposed to be able to connect
to nntp servers, but I didn't try that.)

Upon running the exe, you need to be ready with configuration details.
I had these handy, and entered them exactly as recommended. The
program could not connect to my inbox and it crashed numerous times.
Meanwhile, I was able to connect to the same inbox easily with another
program.

PC-Pine 4.58 is also supposed to be able to connect to pop3 boxes, but
there was no documentation of that in the help file, and I could find
nothing on the web. After fooling around a couple of hours I gave up
on it. Too bad - it had an attractive and easy-to-use dos interface,
and it is certainly freeware in the purest sense.
 
PC-Pine 4.58 is also supposed to be able to connect to pop3 boxes, but
there was no documentation of that in the help file, and I could find
nothing on the web. After fooling around a couple of hours I gave up
on it. Too bad - it had an attractive and easy-to-use dos interface,
and it is certainly freeware in the purest sense.
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I looke at PC-Pine years ago and concluded it was IMAP-only. Newer
versions do understand POP3.
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cis/help/pcpine/pcpinesetup.html
 
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