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[] In article <1992Aug28.131212.7019@linus.mitre.org>
[]adz@heckle.mitre.org (Andrew D. Zenowich) writes:
[]
[]Sorry if this question has been asked and answered several
[]times but I am new to this group and have not seen any related
[]postings here.
[]
[]My question is this, we have a network of NeXT machines each
[]running NeXTmail and their mailboxes are local on each users
[]machine. These  people want to be able to read/reply to there
[]mail from on the road using either a notebook PC or a PowerBook
[]dialing in through a SLIP line. I have looked into running a POP
[]server on each machine and  then using a POP SLIP client on the
[]portables but then either the  mail remains in the mail spool to
[]be gotten a second time by the  POP client or it is removed from the
[]spool not allowing  incorporation into the Nextmail system. I
[]recall some mention of PINE in an earler posting, will that do
[]what we need.

I had posted earlier to the effect that someone should consider using Elm,  
and setting its default directory for mail to be ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
for each user.  Elm easily supports multiple mail folders, so it will 
read in whatever is in /usr/spool/mail into its mailbox, and you can 
change to the NeXTmail mbox by just typing "c" for change folder and then  
"=mbox" when asked to specify the new folder.  This puts you into the  
NeXTmail mbox and off you go.  Elm is infinitely more powerful than the  
crummy /ucb/mail the NeXT comes with, and it should compile straight-  
forwardly on the NeXT.  

In response to my earlier post another fellow wrote in to the effect that  
PINE also did all of these things, and that he liked it better.  I'm not  
familiar enough with PINE to give a comparison, but suggest you get either  
of the two,  install it, and give it a try.  If you do decide on Elm and  
have any problems feel free to drop me a note.

Hope this is helpful --- tom