On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or > gpgp)? > > I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many > people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to > compile on my boxes. :( If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what > are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides the license); is there > anything which pine does better? > > thanks, > Chris
Does mutt have a nice built in address book like pine? Does mutt do the IMAP thing like pine? Is mutt able to lookup email addresses from an X.500 directory server via LDAP? Uh, these are legitimate questions, meaning I really don't know the answers. I wasn't trying to be a smarta*s. These features have become really essential for me. I have a Debian machine at work that is my team's mail server to which I connect via pine/IMAP from home, other software development workstations in our lab, and remotely via a laptop when I'm on travel. The IMAP functionality in pine works really great, I love having this central email repository regardless of where I am physically. I wish pine had color and that the license thing could be solved more to Debian's liking. Some would like a glitzier X Windows-based display (though I would argue that the curses style display had a lot of utility). When I used mutt several years ago, I seem to remember that it was rather confusing to configure, whereas pine has a nice built in configuration utility with on-line help. Ultimately, though, one's choice of a mail user agent is pretty subjective, like editors :) Maybe you should just try mutt for a while and see if you like it better.
