VMS PINE

Following many months of beta testing, the final release of PINE 3.91 for VMS
is now available. My thanks to all those who have assisted in the tests and
supplied comments, bug reports and bug fixes.

PINE is a MAIL and NEWS program written by the University of Washington; it
provides a screen based interface to local and network mail (using IMAP and POP
protocols) and to a NEWS server (using NNTP protocols).  The package includes a
working IMAP2bis server and a POP3 server. These allow any remote client using
the POP3 or IMAP2bis protocols to access mail on the VMS system.

The software will run over NETLIB, for use over any of the popular VMS network
transports (UCX, Multinet, Process, CMU etc.), and has a direct interface to
MULTINET as well. It will compile with VAX C, DEC C and GNU C and runs on both
VAX and ALPHA (the release notes detail those systems on which it has been
tested). NETLIB is available from MadGoat software.

Extensive notes on setting up and configuring the software for VMS are
included, as well as a detailed list of changes. See the file AAAREADME.TXT in
the kit.

Availability:
   http://alder.cc.kcl.ac.uk/pine-vms/
   ftp://ftp2.kcl.ac.uk/fileserv/pine-vms/pine-3-91.zip

   The above includes objects and executables for VAX and ALPHA, built with
   DEC C on OpenVMS 6.2 as well as complete source and build procedures.

   You can also request the source kit via e-mail by sending the message
      SEND PINE.PACKAGE

   to "VMSSERV@KCL.AC.UK". This will result in 260 parts encoded in VMS_SHARE
   format. This kit does NOT include binaries.


Mailing List:
   A VMS-PINE mailing list has been set up for discussion of the VMS port of
   PINE and you can subscribe to this by sending the message:
      SUBSCRIBE VMS-PINE

   to "MXSERVER@MERRIMACK.EDU".



Futures:

I'm looking at incoporating the necessary VMS changes into PINE 3.96 (the
latest available from Washington) and also into the current IMAP 4.1
development kit. However, working software based on these are some months away
yet.

Regards,

Andy Harper
Kings College London

PS: I'm away for two weeks so please do not expect a speedy response to any
queries about this as I shall not be reading any mail until I return.