Pine vs mutt

Tom Masterson kd7cyu at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 31 14:20:54 UTC 2007


I am running both pine and alpine on the same machine so you don't have to 
uninstall one to install the other.  In fact alpine will pick up your pine 
configuration and work just fine.

Tom

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:

> 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
>
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