Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:50:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: William Woods <bwoods2@uswest.net> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171749440.91158-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171506440.979-100000@alpha.uswest.net>
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From what I saw, you can configure it to do that.
Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, William Woods wrote:
> Will mutt use the same mailboxes, ie; /var/mail/user?
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> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
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> > 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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