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• What PC-Pine is
• Where to get PC-Pine
• How to Use PC-Pine for Multiple Users on one Computer
• How to have PC-Pine begin without prompting for a assword
• How to set up PC-Pine to save Mail on UVM's Zoo server
• How to save mail to the Hard Drive
• More to Come

PC-Pine© is a Personal Computer (PC) version of Pine a Program for Internet News & Email. Version 4 is available for only the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT). There are older versions (3.96) available for Windows 3.xx and MS-DOS.

More info on Pine

The latest version of PC-Pine can be found on the Web at http://www.washington.edu/pine/pc-pine

These instructions assume that you already have the PC-Pine distribution file, pm410w32.zip.

1. Create the directory, c:\pine on your hard drive.
2. Copy PC-Pine's distribution file, pm410w32.zip to the c:\pine directory.
3. Use your decompression program to unzip the file.
4. Once the distribution file is decompressed, run the pine.exe file.

Do me a favor, think of PC-Pine as two different entities (obviously it could be divided in many ways and parts, but for this conversation think of it as two). The first part to think of is the program PC-Pine, that makes pine what it is. This part consists of pine the email reader, email sender, news reader, and even pico, the text editor. Think of the second part as the part that makes Pine your email client. This part consists of your pine settings, your address book, your signature, even your dictionary. There are specific files that make pine run, and then there are specific files that make pine run for you, how you want it to run, look, and how to get your mail. These files that customize pine for you or someone else are called user files. Now if you can put these user files in seperate folders (otherwise they would constantly overwrite eachother if not given a different folder), then you can have multiple users use the same version and copy of PC-Pine on one computer to access their mail.

The quickest and easiest way to setup multiple Pine accounts on a Personal Computert is the following (However, this is for those are willing to start an acount from scratch):

(This is a lot of instructions, but only because I'm over-descriptive. Trust me, its easy.)

• Find the place where you would like a shortcut to your PC-Pine (desktop, start menu, etc.)
• Right click on that place
• Go to New
• Go to Shortcut
• Type in the location of PC-Pine (Usually C:\Pine\Pine.exe) then ' -p pinerc' (No quotes, of course)
  ex. 'C:\PINE\Pine.exe -p pinerc' (No quotes, of course)
• Press Next
• Then type in the name of the shortcut, for example Aaron's PC-Pine mail
• Press Enter or Click Finish
• You should now have a shortcut with a pine tree icon, But don't click it yet!
• Right click on your new shortcut, and go to Properties
• Go to the 'Shortcut' Window Tab/Sheet
• Go to find 'Find Target...'
• An Explorer Window should open. Right click in any open space
• Go to New
• Go to Folder
• Name the folder your email username or your name, etc.
• Close the current Explorer Window
• Go back to the Shortcut's Properties window
• In the 'Start in:' field, make sure the location of the new folder you made is here
  (this entails simply adding the name of the new folder to what is already in the 'Start in:' field
• Now you can double click your new shortcut
• Go through the process of setting up PC-Pine (there are other places with this info)
• Your not done yet though
• Don't even check your mail or save it anywhere just yet.
• Open My Computer or Windows Explorer and go to 'C:\MAIL' (PC-Pine probably told announced that it created a folder there)
• Make a new folder(explained earlier)
• Name it your nickname or name, etc.
• Go back to PC-Pine
• Press S for Setup
• Press L for collectionLists
• Configure this to be either an IMAP Server or the new folder you just made in C:\MAIL

Yes. Create a file pine.pwd in the same directory (e.g. C:\pine) of Pinerc. Start Pine, enter your password, wait for Pine to complete the login and Quit. Pine will ask if you want to preserve the password, answer yes. From next time on login is automatic. Don't forget what the consequences of implementing this option are.

These instruction tell you how to set up PC-Pine to access mail from the Zoo IMAP mail server (versus the POP Server). The first time you run PC-Pine, the program will notify you that it will create a local mail directory found at c:\mail. Following the creation of the local mail directory, the program will prompt you for information. Answer each inquiry as follows. After each typed response, the program will prompt you to verify your entry.

• You will be shown the following:

                <<<This message will appear only once>>>

       Welcome to Pine ... a Program for Internet News and Email

We hope you will explore Pine's many capabilities. From the Main
Menu, select Setup/Config to see many of the options available
to you. Also note that all screens have context-sensitive help
text available.

SPECIAL REQUEST: This software is made available world-wide as a
public service of the University of Washington in Seattle. In
order to justify continuing development, it is helpful to have
an idea of how many people are using Pine. Are you willing to be
counted as a Pine user? Pressing Return will send an anonymous
(meaning, your real email address will not be revealed) message
to the Pine development team at the University of Washington for
purposes of tallying.

         Pine is a trademark of the University of Washington.

press Return
• View selected URL "X-Pine-Phone-Home:"? Answer with: Yes. As the program says it is only for tallying purposes, so don't worry.
• Request Document? By selecting yes, you will receive (via email) a brief document entitled "Getting the most out of Pine".
• User-id for From address: Answer with your Zoo Username (i.e. dvader)
• If the programs ever says Preserve something as "something" in PINERC? Respond with Yes
• Personal name for From address : Answer with your Full Name. (i.e. Darth Vader)
• Host/domain for From address : Answer with zoo.uvm.edu
• SMTP server to forward message : Answer with smtp.uvm.edu
• No inbox! Folder to open as inbox : Answer with {zoo.uvm.edu}INBOX

After answering these questions, the program should work properly. However, you will need to make a change to Pine’s settings before you can create folders on the Zoo email server.

There are some other settings that are necessary.

From Pine's Main menu, press the "S" key and then the "C" to open the configuration window. It should look something like this:

              personal-name            = Darth Vader
              user-id                  = dvader
              user-domain              = zoo.uvm.edu
              smtp-server              = smtp.uvm.ed
              nntp-server              = <No Value Set>
              inbox-path               = {zoo.uvm.edu}INBOX
              incoming-archive-folders = <No Value Set>
              pruned-folders           = <No Value Set>
              default-fcc              = <No Value Set: using "sent-mail"> 
              default-saved-msg-folder = <No Value Set: using "saved-messages"> 
              postponed-folder         = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs"> 
              read-message-folder      = <No Value Set>
              signature-file           = <No Value Set: using "pine.sig"> 
              global-address-book      = <No Value Set>

How To Save mail on the Zoo Server

To be able to create folders and save your mail on the Zoo email server do the following:

• Go to Pine's Main menu, press the "S" key and then the "L" to view the Collection Lists settings. The are the settings for locations where collections of folders are located, whether on your hard drive or an internet mail server.
• Press "C" to change the settings of the current Collection
• Change the "Nickname:" to Zoo
• In the "Server:" field, add zoo.uvm.edu

To save mail on Your Hard Drive

To be able to save to your hard drive (so as not to take up to much space on the Zoo server) do the following:

• Go to the CollectionLists in the Setup menu as described above
• Press "A" to add a new Collection
• In the "Nickname:" field, add Local or HardDrive
• In the "Server:" field, put nothing
• In the "Path:" put c:\mail (make sure this path, or the path you want it to be, exists)

PC-Pine Official Site: at University of Washington.
PC-Pine info for Advanced Users: at Infinite Ink (ii.com).
Unofficial PC-Pine FAQ: at the Universtiy of Baltimore, by Al Bento.
PC-Pine FAQ: from Ashland University.
PC-Pine Review: by Softseek.com.
PC-Pine (Info for Windows 3.1): from Rogers Communications Centre.
PC-Pine FAQ: at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN).
Cern's Collection of Q&A's: search here for answers to your PC-Pine questions.

• How to have multiple users use the same computer, but you want to keep your old user files
• Any other suggestions tell me
• How to Integrate/Configure PGP encryption for Pine

URL of this page: http://agave.garden.org/~aaronh/pc-pine.html
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