[SlugLUG] mail client wars?

[Peter Belew]

LOL. See below for original response.

On 10/1/06, Eric Carter <Ecnassianer at greenstorm.net> wrote:
> Oops, accidentally replied to Peter instead of the group. Sorry Peter.
> Original message here:
>
> Gmail is trying it's best to pull me away from a traditional GUI email
> client, but I refuse to leave Thunderbird behind. Part of it is thunderbird
> gives me a "multiple task interface". I don't just read one email out of the
> context of my inbox, or write one message like I do with a letter. I'm
> constantly switching between preview window, inbox view and the composition
> window. Gmail's threading and wizbang ajax features come close, but I'd
> rather be using a stand alone GUI reader.
>
> However, I have thought it would be cool to become proficient with a command
> line email reader so I can check my email via SSH when I'm not at home.
> However webmail/IMAP and the general availablity of a web browser have made
> that a low priority.
>
> EC

Hi Eric -

Well, since I deal with email from multiple locations, gmail seems to
be pretty good, and they store it for free. Any mail I want to keep that
gets sent to my sonic.net address I pass on to gmail.

I just checked - I have 233 mb of mail stored on Gmail. Yow!

But access to multiple emails, sending or receiving, is an attraction
for other solutions, definitely.

:)
>
> On 10/1/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Regarding mutt and its competitors:
> >
> > On 10/1/06, Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > On my ISP's shell server, the choices are mutt and pine. At this moment
> > 2 people are using pine and 8 are using pine, making mutt 4 times as
> > popular - right now.  (That's sonic.net in Santa Rosa). I use mutt, having
> > started out on cruzio.com and later sonic.net using elm, which is
> > somewhat similar to mutt but no longer maintained.
> >
> > For simple text editors, people use pico, nano, and joe, mainly.
> >
> > A reflection about emacs - its simpler editing commands have an ancestry
> > going to the shell for the TENEX operating system for the BBN-modified
> > virtual memory version of the PDP-10 (written by a team of 4 at BBN),
> > and possibly to early OSes written by DEC or for DEC machines. Related
> > to those command sets are the line editor in the BASH shell, one for
> > Cisco routers' IOS, and the 'info' manual system used for some Linux
> > software. Note that emacs and lisp come from MIT, which had a close
> > relationship with DEC in DEC's early years.
> >
> > - Peter
> >
> > >
> > > 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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