Re: [Evolution] Pine

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

Because it's an excellent host-based *text-mode* mail client.

10-15 years ago, "green-screen" terminals ruled the non-PC Universe,
and Pine was the top dog mail reader.

Taking into consideration that I have IMAP on my PC, and fetchmail
automatically grabs my email every 6 minutes and feeds it to Postfix,
which spam-filters it and then drops it into the various IMAP folders,
here's when I'd use Pine in 2005...

  If I had to ssh into my machine from a remote system.

Of course, Evolution is *fat*, Pine is very light-weight, there
are people who need a light-weight mailer, and then there are people
who just like Pine, having used it for so long.

And then there are those who enjoy being anachronistic.

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 18:02 +0000, Paddy Hackett wrote:
> Thanks a million Ron. However why then is Pine used and even advocated.
> I know at several people who prefer and use Pine.
> Paddy Hackett
> =========
> On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 11:50 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:23 +0000, Paddy Hackett wrote:
> > > What is the advantage, if any, of Evolution over Pine.
> >
> > It's easier to configure.
> >
> > It's got an integrated calendar.
> >
> > It's got integrated task lists.
> >
> > It can attach to Lotus Notes and MS Exchange servers.
> >
> > It can create HTML mail!  (Well, ok, that's a negative...)
> >
> > >                                                  How do I get pine
> > > to receive mail rather than just send it
> >
> > Google for the answer, and then ask the *pine* mailing list.

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