Re: Shame about Pine
Posted Oct 31, 2003 7:28 UTC (Fri) by
set (guest, #4788)
In reply to:
Re: Shame about Pine by X-Nc
Parent article:
A look at Fedora Core 1
The first time I tried mutt, I didnt care for it. Whatever the
default settings were, I found ugly, and I was used to pine.
Then pine proved to be too slow at opening mailboxes with a thousand
or so messages in. I re-examined mutt, and found that it is massively
configurable. Starting with a config that mimiced pines interface,
I organicly started to grow and modify my own interface, eg. adding
vi style navigation. Mutt powers through mailboxes with 30k+ emails
no problem, has powerful regex support at all levels, and I wouldnt
go back for the world. Of course, my interface is so personalized
that I cant claim any knowlege of a "mutt user interface", except
how to alter it to suit my needs. A friend of mine was also a long
time pine user, and after sharing my .muttrc, he quickly and easily
moved over... (this looks too much like a mua war troll, but I
really only started it to indicate that transitioning to mutt can
be easier than it may initially appear.;)
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