getting pine to run under fedora 0.94 -- a couple issues

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> There is an alternative to pine called "cone" which I will be
> investigating for possible inclusion in Fedora Core 2.  It is produced by
> the Courier MTA people, and I've heard good things about it, although I
> don't know if it provides all of the functionality that pine does yet or
> not.  If it provides the features I need from pine, I'll probably bite my
> tongue some day and make the switch.  Having been a pine user for about 9
> years across many operating systems and architectures, it'll be hard to
> let go of pine, even though it is evil...  ;o)  In some ways, using pine
> feels like wearing Sauron's one true ring...  It's hard to shake.

cone is like pine the same way mutt is like pine -- both are similar to
pine, but when you have a decade of pine keystroke usage permanently
engrained into your fingers' memory and pine interface expectations seared
on your retina, they're not similar enough ;-)

later,
chris