From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 12:47:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610EC37B76E for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 12:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09599; Sat, 20 May 2000 12:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3926EBB6.E0C1CDD7@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 12:47:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? References: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message