Pine

Pine is a text mode IMAP-capable mail and news client for 32-bit OS/2, including OS/2 version 2.0 and later. This version of Pine is a network client, and requires you to have IBM TCP/IP 2.0 or later installed. The OS/2 Warp IAK is sufficient to run this program across either a SLIP or PPP link.

Note on mailboxes: The default mailbox type uses the IMAP v2bis protocol. To use IMAP, you will need to be connecting to a mail server with an IMAP server that supports IMAP version 2 or later. Pine may also be used with POP v2 or v3 servers, but is not as functional by a large margin.

POP3 NOTE: Some problems have been reported with the POP3 support in previous versions of the Pine OS/2 port. However, these seem to be configuration related and only occur with some systems - the porter has been as yet unable to either reproduce the problem or track down its source. If you can convince your service provider to run an IMAP server rather than having to rely entirely on the somewhat archaic pop3 protocol, then do so TODAY. Using Pine over IMAP is a far better solution to any existing alternatives, and has many MANY useful features above and beyond that pop3 can provide.

Note that POP only supports one mailbox that is the standard mailbox for incoming mail. With IMAP, you can access other folders on that mailbox, and mailboxes on other servers as well, all in the same session. If you have IMAP available, you can also use your provider's system for storage of folders, and definition of multiple incoming folders, and use procmail or some other mail filtering system on your provider's machine to automatically move incoming mail into the correct folder.

Pine uses SMTP delivery only, and is not suitable for an OS/2 system set up as a mail server. That would require a great many changes to the c-client system (for OS/2, at least). Before you can send mail you must have a valid SMTP server entry in your PINERC.

Local mail folders created and maintained by PineOS2 are in "dawz" format, which is identical to the format used by the MS-DOS and Windows builds. This version of Pine is also able to read "Berkeley" style mail folders, but only in read-only mode.

For the convenience of WPS users, this version of Pine includes a -w command line switch which sets the window size by the number number of lines to which Pine should set Vio window. The INSTPINE.CMD supplied simply creates an object on your desktop a some typical setting and allows you to select the standard desktop size you wish to use.

Example scripts are provided as a sample of how you might configure Pine to automatically sign messages with PGP, and verify signatures on incoming messages so signed. You need to have PGP installed correctly with a valid secret and/or public keyring on your system before these scripts will be of any use.

Releases
Port by Nicholas Paul Sheppard:
 * 4.64 (2005)

Links

 * Archived Website