PGP and Offline Mail/News

A while ago some one here (from England) mentioned a program he was
involved with that was an offline mail reader that allowed one to add
external protocols like PGP. He gave an FTP site (also in England).
The program was called something like APPNEWS. I downloaded it,
looked at it, and archived it until I could put time into installing
it with my connection and work out the bugs of dynamic addressing.
Now was the time, but I have lost the program. Please help me.

Perry queried earlier about what off-line readers people use. I use
Pop-mail and Eudora, but neither are really friendly with adding
externals. The problem I want to overcome is providing multiple users
on a single machine with security. Pop-mail and Eudora are designed to
be used by a single user and a personal (hopefully secure) machine.
The solution currently implemented is to have users save mail only to
floppy. Both mailers will create personal directories, but these can be
accessed both within and from outside the program. I would like to add
PGP (or another scheme) so that *all* saved messages (or ones so desired)
are encrypted. This would use the user's password and would be automatic.

A.

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> A while ago some one here (from England) mentioned a program he was
> involved with that was an offline mail reader that allowed one to add
> external protocols like PGP. He gave an FTP site (also in England).
> The program was called something like APPNEWS. I downloaded it,
> looked at it, and archived it until I could put time into installing
> it with my connection and work out the bugs of dynamic addressing.
> Now was the time, but I have lost the program. Please help me.
> 
> Perry queried earlier about what off-line readers people use. I use
> Pop-mail and Eudora, but neither are really friendly with adding
> externals. The problem I want to overcome is providing multiple users
> on a single machine with security. Pop-mail and Eudora are designed to
> be used by a single user and a personal (hopefully secure) machine.
> The solution currently implemented is to have users save mail only to
> floppy. Both mailers will create personal directories, but these can be
> accessed both within and from outside the program. I would like to add
> PGP (or another scheme) so that *all* saved messages (or ones so desired)
> are encrypted. This would use the user's password and would be automatic.

check out the newly released PCPINE.  It is a pine client for IBMpc's.
It will run either stand alone (with packet drivers, using WATTCP),
under FTP's PC/TCP package, or under Novell.  (There are three
different files, one for each configuration).  To use it you
need to get a mail server running the IMAP protocol daemon
'imapd'.  It is like POP but has more advanced features.

You can find both at
  ftp.cac.washington.edu
in pine or pub/pine.

  c-client.tar.Z     <- has impad for unix boxes
  pcpine_p.zip     packet driver version
  pcpine_n.zip     novell version
  pcpine_f.zip     ftp pctcp version

pcpine has mostly all the PINE features, and is easily configured
for external mail processing add ons (like gif viewers and crypto 
stuff).  (note: 'easy' is a relative term :)

> Techno-Anarchy.Neophilia.Economic Freedom.Cryptography.Anti-Statism.Personal
> Liberty.Laissez-Faire.Privacy Protection.Libertarianism.No Taxes.No Bullshit.
> **********            Liberty BBS 1-614-798-9537                  **********
> **********           Dedicated to Freedom. Yours.                 **********
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