From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 2:28:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234B937BF61 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 02:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12sMaZ-00092a-00; Thu, 18 May 2000 10:27:31 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12sMaZ-0008mt-00; Thu, 18 May 2000 10:27:31 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:27:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Shawn Barnhart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000518102731.I21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <002c01bfc043$ff4a8980$b8209fc0@marlowe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <002c01bfc043$ff4a8980$b8209fc0@marlowe> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Barnhart wrote: > Being a Pine user and not a user of the other two, do they include a > built-in editor of any value? Ah, good point. I kind of thought that Pine just used Pico as an external editor which looked the same. It seems not. > An IMAP client? Slrn doesn't, oddly enough. ;-) Mutt does IMAP, though it's not that good in version 1.0, I hear it's vastly improved in 1.2. I don't use IMAP though so I can't test it. Another thing Pine has which Mutt doesn't (although it can't take up much space) is SMTP client code. That belongs in the MTA, not the MUA. > That warm, user-friendly interface that reminds you of your first UNIX > account during the heady days at University, that girl with the soft, > brown hair, er, nevermind. I think Pine's user interface is ugly, personally. Mutt keeps it simple. Pine is probably easier to use for beginners though. -- 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