[lug] Mutt versus Pine

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Getting off-topic, but I would add that now that I don't use a GUI-based mail
client, I can log onto my box remotely, via SSH.  A lot faster and more secure
than using Yahoo!'s web interface.  Of course, this requires that the remote 
machine have an SSH client.

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:26:27PM -0600, quoth 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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