On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, beartooth wrote:
If we may make suggestions, I nominate Pine; the rpm at washington.edu/pine is for x86 -- and one of the posters on gmane.linux.yellowdog.general gave a site, back in early May '05, where he had posted an rpm that worked. It still does.

As you can tell from the participation on the pine list gmane carries, and especially from comp.mail.pine, this app has lots of users, especially *ix people.

Yes, and I'm one of them (I'm even using MacPine right now, deleted Mail.app the second I got my new laptop). I have been a Pine user for years and I really *love* the interface. However Pine isn't very distro friendly - they have a braindead license. For example, if a distro found a security problem with Pine, they're not allowed to ship patched binarys without written permission from UofW. Instead, they have to either wait for UofW to fix it and ship their binaries, or ship source or patches. This is really not acceptable.

I think it's about time that someone started a petition to tell the UofW folks to get their heads out of their collective butts and licence Pine under a saner license. Now, my primary mail client is Evolution (which is a bloated piece of crap - probably going to switch to Kmail) and I'm going to probably swith to Mutt for my shell/text only mail client soon.


Cheers,

Chris


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