[LINK] Eudora email moves to open source

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:24:59PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 11/14/06, grove at zeta.org.au <grove at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > I use PINE everywhere, even on OSX.   I will never give it up.
> 
> Every time you upgrade or install pine on a FreeBSD system, you get this
> reassuring message:
> [...]
> -andyf (long time pine user)

i was a long time pine user until i switched to mutt years ago, used it
for years.

it took me a day or so to get used to mutt, but once i did i loved it. it
doesn't have the stupid bugs that pine does, it feels a lot faster and
more responsive, its message selecting/tagging features are brilliant
(incl. full regexp search of headers and bodies), and it's actively developed
and supported because, unlike pine, it's truly open source (pine has a
restrictive license which prevents anyone else from modifying and
redistributing it).

and yes, it was a pain for the first day or so...it's difficult to
switch from something you've used for so many years. sometimes, though,
it's worth it.

there is a config file available for mutt which redefines the command
keystrokes to be pine-compatible, but IMO it's not worth it. it's easier
to just spend a day or so "reprogramming your fingers" to learn the mutt
keystrokes.

mutt and vim, IMO, make the best combination for mail client and message
editor around.


craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)