[SlugLUG] mail client wars?

[Peter Belew]

What about mutt? - I switched to that when my ISP stopped
supporting elm.

- Peter

On 9/30/06, Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> wrote:
> pico comes with pine (a non "free" program)
>
> which inspires this thought:
>
> what's your favorite text mode mail reading program?
>
> i've missed elm's super easy keyboard short cuts for slicing and dicing
> my mailbox and its speed and efficiency ever since i switched over to a
> gui mail client... it was so easy and FAST to input a regex select or
> mark mail for deletion, etc. plus, of course, having vi as my default
> editor was great... as far as I can tell, it isn't supported / developed
> any longer... i had to dig pretty hard to find a copy of it for Mandriva
>
> is there a gui email client that has this type of functionality?
>
> a lot of the less sophisticated employee users at my web hosting company
> were more comfortable using pine and pico for some reason, than elm and vi
>
> thomas
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