From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 15:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 685AD37C1A4 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 15:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwoods2@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 10947 invoked by alias); 17 May 2000 22:02:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 10937 invoked by uid 0); 17 May 2000 22:02:22 -0000 Received: from alpha.uswest.net (63.227.213.92) by ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 17 May 2000 22:02:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:07:09 -0700 (PDT) From: William Woods Reply-To: bwoods2@uswest.net To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? In-Reply-To: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will mutt use the same mailboxes, ie; /var/mail/user? ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Doug Wellington wrote: > > > If you want to stick to a monolithic mail reader like pine, you might > > consider moving to mutt... > > On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this? > > ben@strontium:~$ 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? > > > > (yes, they're all dynamically linked & stripped, I'm not being unfair.) > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message