My first mail client was pine. I used it for two hours and then immediate asked for something else to use. I used elm for years, just because I hated pine that much. (For those of you who have used elm, it's not the nicest of email clients!)
I used KMail for about a week, then that's when a friend pointed me towards mutt. In my opinion, pine doesn't compare to mutt. I think mutt is far more configurable, and if compiled with nntp support, it works. I have ~/.muttrc that's a couple hundred lines long. Then I stumble across somebody who's ~/.muttrc is 3 times as long as mine is! Everything from keybindings set, to macros, color configurations and the like. Like Mutt is the vi of mail readers. It's impossible to learn all the different configs that could be applied to it. And as somebody already mentioned, neither pine or mutt are GUI based, but I do believe people have created GUIs to work as a pine/mutt front end. Mutt is your friend! :') tdh -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Having not used pine, would some kind soul impart how it stacks up against mutt. | Is pine a command line program or is it GUI? | | Thanks, | Dr John, | The Night Tripper | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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