Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:07:09 -0700 (PDT) From: William Woods <bwoods2@uswest.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171506440.979-100000@alpha.uswest.net> In-Reply-To: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Will mutt use the same mailboxes, ie; /var/mail/user?
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Doug Wellington wrote:
>
> > If you want to stick to a monolithic mail reader like pine, you might
> > consider moving to mutt...
>
> On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this?
>
> ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine}
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 7 Nov 1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 5 Jun 1999 /usr/local/bin/pine*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 171532 2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn*
>
> Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put
> together. Why?? From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of
> junk. It doesn't even do colours or threading. How on earth is Pine
> over 2MB?? Is it entering the "most bloated communications program"
> competition alongside Outlook Express or something?
>
> </rant>
>
> (yes, they're all dynamically linked & stripped, I'm not being unfair.)
>
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