From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 15:51:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFE016A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:51:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from signal.itea.ntnu.no (signal.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.190.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF5643D46 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:51:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by signal.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A886D339BA for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:51:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by signal.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:51:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 70490 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Aug 2005 17:51:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Aug 2005 17:51:27 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:51:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Sean Murphy In-Reply-To: <430DE7FB.7000606@calarts.edu> Message-ID: <20050825174857.Q70469@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <430DE7FB.7000606@calarts.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pine alternative? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:51:34 -0000 * Sean Murphy [2005-08-25 08:47 -0700] > We have been using pine for years on our Sun Solaris box. We are in the > process of moving to FreeBSD. I installed Pine from an updated ports > collection and received a message about pine not being very secure. Is > anyone using an alternative to pine that can also read pine's folders and > addresses? I need it to be compatible as we still have many users with lots > of data in pine. I guess mutt would do. But be aware that the notice is warning you about Pine's previous security history. All known security holes are fixed, and if you plan on keeping your system up-to-date (by e.g keeping track of portaudit etc), you should be alright. Svein Halvor