On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Simon Huggins wrote:
> Are you - free software advocate extraordinaire by most people's
> standards - finally moving to a truely free mail client rather than PINE
> then?
OK, I'll bite, given that I've been up all night and feel like it :-)
The reason I am using pine is mostly "historic", and dates back to around
1997 when I first played with setting up a home mail server and dedicated
mail access point rather than using netscape on my desktop to retreive
things by pop3 as I had been until then. At the time this present box
was installed (1998) it was a case of convienience that I used pine and
got everything working nicely around that[0] - I will retire that machine
hopefully over the next few months but it's really down to finding the
time to change a lot of things which are fairly weird but work well enough
at the moment that I cba to do it :-)
Short version, I'm busy, I use mutt elsewhere but just not on that box
yet. It always was that way and I'll fix it "soon". The lack of threading
was entirely down to the way I was reading the mail at the time.
Jon.
[0] Nastily long fetchmail config file with procmail doing filtering and
a few backend sed scripts to generate summary logs for SMS delivery.
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