John,
having been a pine "convert" for the last 13 years, I can only agree.
pine copes real well with IMAP - few mail clients work well with IMAP. It
seems that most clients are designed around pop, and then have imap pasted
on as an afterthought. Consequently, on opening a folder with 100000
entries, the client brings all the headers of all the messages.
Riduculous. And so, such folders take a minute to open. Pine does such
folders in seconds.
Every now and then you find new features. pine/alpine has a setting where
the default save folder for an incoming message can be derived from the
addressbook. Thus, if you have a complete addressbook, and FCC entries in
your addressbook, the default save folder for the incoming message is the
FCC folder..
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Hardy Heron Sadness of the day.
I have just updated two machines at home to HH. Now, some of the neopet
pages and games don't work. You have to download the lastest shockwave
player, and the links don't work. It is not clear where to go in synaptic
to get the right package. The mozilla plugin installer don't know where to
find the plugin... Oh, one machine is a 64 bit box with nvidia.
- Any clues?
Derek.
On Fri, 2 May 2008, John Carter wrote:
Decades ago, when this email thing came out I looked around for a good
mailer and discovered "pine" and learnt to use that.
Alas, it was not true blue open source, (stupid dumb Academia might
make us money someday license) so it was never packaged with the
distros....
...but, it was so good, that everytime distro upgrade came around I'd
swear and curse, try mutt, evolution, thunderbird, mutter, grumble,
mutter, I don't have time for this....
...and download and install pine again.
Now the Good Folk at "Washington.Edu" have produced a true open source
pine called "alpine" and version 1.0 is packaged with Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
Gnice! Works just like Good Old Pine, except has better ldap
integration, and very funny little ascii art busy bars!
Oh yes, for those who don't know... pine and alpine are retro-style
text only mailers.
None of this slow/buggy gluey gui html crap.
Well, actually it does a nice text-only "links" like rendering of
html, so thats OK. Which means it's more than usually pointless to
send me viral / viral infected / joke / chain emails... All the hearts and
puppies and blinking stars just get dropped out. :-)
Sigh! Happy me. I like alpine.
John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Zealand
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Derek Smithies Ph.D.
IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ph +64 3 365 6485
Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
