[lug] Mutt versus Pine

[Rob Riggs]

I've used Netscape Messenger, and lately Mozilla's mail client for about 
as long as I can remember. Mozilla's mail/news client is the best MUA 
I've come across. I'm almost always working in GUI mode anyway so it's a 
natural choice. It's especially handy when I have to switch roles (home 
and work, in my case). If I'm CLI bound, then Mutt is the mail client of 
choice. Or 'less Mailbox' if I'm in fast, read-only mode, along with the 
ever handy 'grep "^Subject: " Mailbox'. :)

I became a mutt user because of it's similarity to elm, my past CLI MUA 
of choice. I avoided pine because I absolutely *hated* to use it's 
default editor, pico. I don't think either is really better than the other.

J. Wayde Allen wrote:

>I've been toying with the idea of trying to switch from Pine to Mutt.  No
>particularly good reason other than a lot of people I respect seem to like
>Mutt.  I've been tinkering a bit this afternoon, and it looks to me like
>Mutt works fine, but ...
>
>   - Does Mutt have an address book, if so how do you use it?
>
>   - How do you setup the default behavior?  I'm guessing there is a
>     config file so will go see if I can find it.
>
>   - Can one have what in Pine is called a "Role"?  That sets ones "From:"
>     header depending on a set of address rules.
>
>One question is, do people prefer Mutt over Pine, and if so why? I guess
>maybe I need a bit of a push.
>