FC4 Pine replacement?

[John Summerfied]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Jonathan Underwood <j.underwood at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>>>The closest thing I have been able to find to pine is something called
>>>cone [1].
>>>So far though I keep going back to pine since that is what my fingers are
>>>trained to use. :-)
>>
>>As an aside, cone is available from fedora extras, and is quite nice.
>>Not as featureful as pine though.
> 
> 
> 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?

The point of PINE is that it works on a text console. I regularly use 
Mozilla, Thunderbird, PINE Is Not Elm, Mail (OS X), sometimes kmail 
Evolution and Mutt on the same mailboxes.



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