Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:29:02 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing (was: i probably drew daemon's rage on myself) Message-ID: <19991112182902.B3032@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911121807590.60313-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <19991112161303.B2052@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911121807590.60313-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> Just what *is* the best unix mail client?
Mutt is certainly the best I've seen. (The best mail client for *any*
platform that I've seen, not just unix.)
> I use pine, even though i know it's for neophytes. Mutt seems like to
> much trouble unless you really need threads.
Well, I suppose I do need threads. I don't know how anyone can cope with
reading a busy mailing list like this without them, but I suppose others
will have different views. Mutt is also a lot more configurable than Pine
from what I've seen, in many ways. Finally,
ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,pine}
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 Nov 7 00:07 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 Jun 5 18:20 /usr/local/bin/pine*
Pine is about six times the size of Mutt. I really can't see why. (Yes,
they are both stripped, I'm not being unfair.)
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