Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 12:47:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <3926EBB6.E0C1CDD7@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net> <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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.
So you obviously haven't seen much.
> It doesn't even do colours or threading.
The latest version does both. In addition to what others have
mentioned, it also can read news. It also has pretty extensive built in
help. Things like mail and news readers tend to be "religious" topics,
but I don't see a need to berate a product you don't use (and obviously
don't know that much about) just because it doesn't meet your needs.
Doug
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