I'm a pine user, and I was looking at the release notes for fedora core 1. Pine is not included due to license and "long term maintenance" issues. I've enjoyed using pine for 8 or more years, and I really like it. I'm disappointed that it won't be continued under Red Hat. (I know I could install it myself. Maybe that's the right answer.) Although I'm not enthusiastic about switching mailers, maybe it's time. My needs are pretty basic: Text-based because I work across a WAN when I access home email from work & vice-versa. Connection to xemacs & the gnuclient interface. (I wrote a perl script to do it.) It would be nice if my address book ported to the replacement mailer. Interface to LDAP address book server. Any suggestions about replacements or just building pine myself? Are there really problems that make it unattractive? TIA, Bill
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:03:02PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Text-based because I work across a WAN when I access home email from work & vice-versa.
Mutt is included with all recent Red Hat distros, and sounds like what you are looking for: http://www.mutt.org/ "Though written from scratch, Mutt's initial interface was based largely on the ELM mail client. To a large extent, Mutt is still very ELM-like in presentation of information in menus (and in fact, ELM users will find it quite painless to switch as the default key bindings are identical). As development progressed, features found in other popular clients such as PINE and MUSH have been added, the result being a hybrid, or "mutt." At present, it most closely resembles the SLRN news client. Mutt was originally written by Michael Elkins but is now developed and maintained by the members of the Mutt development mailing list."
Connection to xemacs & the gnuclient interface. (I wrote a perl script to do it.)
Mutt can probably be interfaced to gnuclient with perl too. You can set your editor to be anything you want. I tend to use GNU Nano, a Pico clone, since that's where I came from.
It would be nice if my address book ported to the replacement mailer.
Should be simple to convert your Pine address book to a Mutt aliases file: http://www.diku.dk/~pink/pine2mutt_aliases.pl
Interface to LDAP address book server.
Mutt can do this: http://mailman.efn.org/pipermail/eug-lug/2003-March/001957.html http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/marius/mutt-ldap.pl
Any suggestions about replacements or just building pine myself? Are there really problems that make it unattractive?
The primary driving force behind me switching away from Pine a couple years ago was the discussion of licensing, and how Pine doesn't fit the definitions of Free or Open Source software. As a result, my situation was very similar to yours, and I customized Mutt to be very similar to Pine w.r.t. key bindings, etc. Feel free to E-mail me if you are interested in my configuration files, or if there is enough interest I can post them here... -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:39:40PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
you are interested in my configuration files, or if there is enough interest I can post them here...
hehe. mutt config files are so plentiful and varied, they could be a topic for a meeting! ;) /me hearts mutt -- Randomly Generated Tagline: f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.
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