Pine vs mutt

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Good evening,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

> For those who still wish to use pine, I would rather recommend alpine.
> It is the recoded open-source version of pine and behaves nearly
> identically. The difference is that alpine is open-source, newer and
> still maintained by its developers, who are the same people who brought
> us pine. The other main difference is that it is included in Debian and
> Ubuntu. It can be installed by using apt-get, so you don't have to
> download a .deb package from elsewhere.

Thanks. I didn't know that. It looks interesting. However, you have to 
uninstall pine before installing alpine.

Regards,

Bertil