Re: PINE Debian Package
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:15:53PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
: Mutt is, at best, a very weak replacement for Pine. As for text email
: clients, Pine has no equal and is "free enough" for most uses. If Debian
: is going to start producing a crappy distribution just because it is free,
: I will pay for one that is not.
Weak? Uh, many of us feel that mutt is quite an order of magnitude
better. I am among those who feel this way. Why is mutt better?
1) Native support for Maildir format mailboxen
2) *much* more configurable than pine
3) Doesn't have the nasty habit of wanting to post to a newsgroup when
someone replies (not follows) to your article
4) Doesn't try to pass itself off as a second rate newsreader
5) Support for color
6) Support for threaded discussions (great for mailing lists!)
7) It's less filling:
/home/jcostom$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/pine
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 1193128 Jan 17 12:47 /usr/local/bin/pine
/home/jcostom$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/mutt
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 320948 Mar 15 22:44 /usr/local/bin/mutt
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