FC4 Pine replacement?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 18:36:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:14, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > Sorry, but what is the point of using pine when one can use
> > Thunderbird, Evolution, and so on? Has pine got something so special
> > to make it your elected e-mail client?
> 
> When one only has ssh access to a machine and no local Xserver, a 
> console based MUA is handy :)

Yes but it would be even better to set up an IMAP server on
the machine and let your local MUA display it as another
folder.  You can probably tunnel that through ssh if you
can't set up direct imap-over-ssl.

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 Les Mikesell
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