Pine vs mutt

[Jude DaShiell]

Pine can get to nntp: servers and knows how to use them though that's a 
little work to set up.  Mutt is only capable of email so far as I know.



On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Since I started using Linux, I've basically been using pine as my mail
> program. However, I have the impression that a lot of people are
> using mutt and think it's superior, I think that it would be a good idea
> to compare notes.
>
> Pine: the setup is menu driven, You can have several signatures, you
> don't have to use an smtp server when sending mail, you can access
> newsgroups.
>
> You can't easily manipulate threads.
>
> Mutt: Easy to manipulate threads, you can search bodies of messages.
>
> You have to write the configuration file and if you do, it's highly
> configurable, you can't, easily, have more than one addressbok, you
> can't use an smtp server to send your outgoing mail.
>
> Have I missed things?
>
> It would be interesting to have a discussion about these two programs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bertil Smark Nilsson
>
>
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