Pine vs mutt

[Aldo]

Hi Jan&Bertil,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:15:14PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
> Pine: the setup is menu driven, You can have several signatures, you 
> don't have to use an smtp server when sending mail, you can access 
> newsgroups.

I only use Pine for reading news since I absolutely can't work with Slrn (IMHO
a totally non intuitive app).

But with Mutt I can simply change my reply-address by pressing esc=f
depending on which address I have to use at that moment; 
Pine can't do that, even if you can use more signatures. That's why I prefer
Mutt over Pine.

I do also appreciate Mutt because of its fantastic integration with other
extras (anyway under Debian): let me mention urlview or the way I can
simply click on attachments under Mutt;
in my situation a doc file is converted on the fly by wv and immediately
shown, 
a wav or mp3 is directly passed to my mplayer, 
a pdf converted by pstotext and shown... 
etc.
IMHO if you remember how less things we were able to do under DOS, these
kind of simple features are the testimonials that in fact we doesn't need
Gnome and the graphical environment, except for situations where
commandline-based apps limitate our efficiency and functionality (AFAIK
Internet access of some particular websites due to JS/Flash/etc). For
emailing&news I'm happy enough with such tools like Mutt and Pine.

Aldo.