[MFT: debian-devel, since this is a proposal for a new packaging project] On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 02:41:10PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Does anyone know of some free software that walks like Pine, talks like Pine > and looks like Pine but in fact is not Pine? (something like nano instead of > pico, mutt-fans please hands off the keyboard) sorry, no. :) You're aware that mutt's keybindings and default behavior are heavily configurable? At one time, there was a pine-like muttrc file that someone was distributing. Changing the system defaults in the mutt package is obviously off-limits, but if someone cares about this issue, it shouldn't be too much trouble to distribute a 'pine' script that calls "mutt -F /etc/Mutt-pinerc". I used the "pine" muttrc years ago when I first took up mutt, and while it was definitely rough around the edges, it was also familiar enough that I felt it was worth trying -- especially for mutt's vastly superior PGP, threading, and multiple-identities support. With a bit of work from Debian, I think mutt could provide a much better pine than it did back then. It should even be possible to handle such things as one-time automatic importing of address books. Of course, if someone believes there's another mailer that would make a better framework for building a pine workalike, feel free to suggest it. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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