[SlugLUG] mail client wars?

[Thomas Leavitt]

ah, that shows how long it's been since I've operated 24/7 in a
character based terminal environment - i split my time (at the moment)
between a laptop running windows 2000, and my Mandriva 2006 desktop
which had KDE on it... most of my time in a text mode environment is
spent messing around on the server, administering it...

i get the impression that mutt is the default choice for character mode
email at this point

thomas

Peter Belew wrote:
> 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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