Pine vs mutt

[Willem van der Walt]

I do not know mut, but am using Pine for years.
The only problem that I have with pine, is that the attachment viewer 
setup seem to have a bug.
If I for example have an audio attachment, I can listen to it by viewing 
the attachment in pine, but if it is a .doc or .odf or .pdf document, it 
just says "viewer command launched" but does not work although the viewers 
all work fine from the bash prompt.  The frustrating part is that I had it 
working fine a few years ago.
I have not found any limitation in pine which made me want to switch.
My two cents.


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Aldo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:29:00AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> > pine is to pico/nano as mutt is to vi/vim/emacs
> 
> I use to combine Mutt with Nano, and now with Joe, since I found Joe being a
> very easy/useful and powerfull enough editor.
>  
> > Pine (and pico/nano) is/are easy to approach for the uninitiated, 
> > and get the basics done and a small handful of more advanced 
> > features.
> 
> Idem for Mutt+Nano/Mutt+Joe.
>  
> > Mutt (and vi/vim/emacs) has/have a much steeper learning curve, 
> > but also afford far more power to the user that's willing to 
> > invest the time to learn them.  They also allow for far more 
> > customization to your own whims, allowing you to do 
> > crazy-powerful things.  To further the analogy, I'd compare Mutt 
> > to vi/vim, and Thunderbird to XEmacs...vi/vim/mutt are svelte but 
> > a bit obscure while Thunderbird and XEmacs hog more resources and 
> > are a bit more approachable for the newbie.
> 
> Maybe you can Google with keywords like "example+.muttrc" or
> ".muttrc+template": IMHO the problem of Mutt is that it isn't configurable
> by a Menu function as under Pine; 
> but its easy when you find some good tempalte to refer to.
> 
> (Note: for the editor you can set it inside .muttrc by adding:
> set editor=joe
> to ~/.muttrc
> that's all)
>  
> > I haven't yet made the jump to Mutt, but not for want to learn 
> > it.  
> 
> I have both on my Debian systems:
> Mutt is by default,
> Pine does also exist as .deb package here:
> http://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/linux/pine
> I mostly use Mutt for mail, Pine only for nntp.
> Both are interesting and blindfriendly applications.
> 
> Aldo. 
> 
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