Re: This is a list of stuff That I want for the Apple II.

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. (LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com) wrote:
: On 1 Sep 1997 22:42:43 GMT, itsme <quantum@telis.org> wrote:

: >Newsgroup reader and poster for Apple II
: >
: >Email reader and sender for apple II

: Unless you're using some TCP/IP thing, or something like SIS for the
: IIgs, these programs are something your ISP has, and you use them
: remotely via an Apple // terminal program like MouseTalk, ProTerm,
: ReadyLink, EasyLink, etc.

This is kind-of true, but...

I *can* download my email 'box' from my ISP.
I *can* (sort-of) upload files for mailing and posting from my GS to my ISP.

But I am stuck doing my email on-line because I have no way to read
messages off-line (unless I download each message individually, or
manually page through a *huge* mail file).  Well, that isn't completely
true...I do have a program here someplace that will allow me to read a
UNIX mail file, but it has no provision for exporting chunks into an
editor to compose replies.  Am I making sense here?

Furthermore, I have a shell account.  I don't know enough about UNIX and
sendmail to implement it, but while there is no SLIP or PPP connection,
there *is* an available POP3 server.  In theory, it ought to be possible
to implement POP on the A][ for those of us who have shell accounts, with
a combination of ][-side and UNIX-side scripts.  But the first thing to do
is to come up with a reader/editor that leaves it to the user to figure
out how to transfer the files.  Then the next step is to implement POP.

There already exist QWK! programs for the ][; it seems to me that it
shouldn't be difficult to adapt one or more of those to handle the
'standard' UNIX mail file instead.  That would be a good start...

Any comments, ][rus?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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