You will be prompted for a username and password. Enter the same name and password that you normally use to logon to read your mail. Place a blank formatted disk in the computer's disk drive. Type dir to view the contents of your email directory. You will see a list of your pine folder names - each of these is a text file containing all the messages in that folder.
Type get foldername to copy a particular folder to the floppy disk.
When you have copied the folders that you want to keep, type quit to end the ftp session. It is also possible to export individual messages from pine and ftp them to a floppy disk in a similar way, or you could make a new folder in pine and copy all the messages you want into it, then just copy that one folder to your disk. Last updated 15th January 1998. Copyright Wadham College 1998.