On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: > > > > hello, linuxers, > > > > > > > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > > > > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands andtens of thousands > > > > of messages (think lkml archive). > > > > > > I'm using mutt. mutt supports many mailbox formats, but I use the > > > default mbox one. I know someone who uses a mua where every message is > > > a file. it's called gmh or mh I think. > > > > if you'll look at my headers, you'll see that i'm using mutt as well > > as of now. its handling of large mailboxes does leave something to be > > desired, but it's definitely better than pine. i've also been looking > > for a good reason to ditch pine, due to it's non-free license. > > You've got to be some purist to have issues with pine's license.
even if we ignore all of the other issue with pine, it's not free software (according to debian's guidelines). why should i run it on mystem when there are better free alternatives? for the curious, http://www.asty.org/articles/20010702pine.html -- mulix http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
