On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine.
I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mutt a lot clunkier than Pine. One example: when you call up Pine for the first time in any home directory, Pine creates a default .pinerc and it is extremely easy to customize Pine from the Pine master menu. In contrast, with mutt, no .muttrc is created automatically on first use and evidently there exists no easy to use configuration program (at least I have been unable to find one) as there is in Pine. It took me an hour of wading through documentation to figure out how to just get my 'From:' header to display my e-mail address. Apparently, I must do the same for each item of customization I want in mutt. Another example: control and navigation keys are clearly displayed at the bottom of each Pine screen. For the equivalent functionality in mutt, I must press '?' and wade through a gadzillion keys displayed over multiple screens. I would gladly convert to mutt from Pine just to get a more pure open source license. But, in my opinion, the clunkiness of mutt makes such a conversion quite formidable when I must still read my e-mail each day. So I am very surprised to hear you say that you think Pine is clunkier than mutt. I would welcome learning in what ways. Dwight
