Re: PINE Debian Package
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:40:12PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
: On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jason Costomiris wrote:
:
: > 1) Native support for Maildir format mailboxen
:
: and that is better?
Yes. I'm one of those nuts who believes in reliable delivery with an NFS
mounted mail spool. :-) Also much more resilient, and less prone to
corruption and message loss.
: > 2) *much* more configurable than pine
:
: But is missing some key items.
:
: Put another way. If you have to support a couple of hundred relative unix
: clueless, I would rather they use pine than mutt. I will admit that it
: has sveraql months since I last took a look at it, I am willing to have
: another look.
If they indeed are "unix clueless", it will take forever for them to fathom
the idea of a VTY. I can hear it now... "pine? Do I get that through
FTP or is it that telenet thingamajig?" If they are indeed "unix clueless",
you'll run a POP or IMAP server and give them their pretty Windoze or Mac
mailers.
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