Re: email storage format

Pine uses IMAP, local mbox, or local maildir formats.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Mace" <jhm18 <at> psu.edu>
To: "Mitch Kapor" <mitch <at> osafoundation.org>
Cc: <design <at> osafoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Design] email storage format

> When the psu.edu mail server receives email it is processed by sendmail.
> Sendmail goes through a process to determine what it should do with
> my email, I have told it to forward any email for me (jhm18 <at> psu.edu) to my
> local machine (this keeps me from having to actively retrieve it from a
> server).  If I didn't tell sendmail to do anything special then I would be
> able to use POP to retrieve my email.
>
> It makes sense to have the Chandler repository be the main source, but
> this would be like connecting to a calendar server to get other events.
>
> Jeff Mace
> Academic Services and Emerging Technologies (ASET)
> Information Technology Services (ITS)
> Pennsylvania State University
>
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mitch Kapor wrote:
>
> > Let me make sure I understand this use case.  It doesn't appear to be a
> > common one.  How does the mail get from its origin to your desktop
machine?
> >