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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 17:50:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
To:        William Woods <bwoods2@uswest.net>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: better than pine?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171749440.91158-100000@home.offwhite.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171506440.979-100000@alpha.uswest.net>

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From what I saw, you can configure it to do that.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

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On Wed, 17 May 2000, William Woods wrote:

> Will mutt use the same mailboxes, ie; /var/mail/user?
> 
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> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> > Doug Wellington wrote:
> > 
> > > If you want to stick to a monolithic mail reader like pine, you might
> > > consider moving to mutt...
> > 
> > On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this?
> > 
> > ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine}
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   367592  7 Nov  1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2374520  5 Jun  1999 /usr/local/bin/pine*
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   171532  2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn*
> > 
> > Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put
> > together.  Why??  From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of
> > junk.  It doesn't even do colours or threading.  How on earth is Pine
> > over 2MB??  Is it entering the "most bloated communications program"
> > competition alongside Outlook Express or something?
> > 
> > </rant>
> > 
> > (yes, they're all dynamically linked & stripped, I'm not being unfair.)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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