On 6 March 2015 at 16:02, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com>
| I used mutt for a year or so (a decade ago), but configuring it always | required a huge amount of reading, editing text files, cursing, and | rinse and repeat. While vim is arguably the same, I found the rewards | greater - so I continue to use vim but these days I use Gmail's web | interface rather than mutt.
alpine is a reasonable and reasonably simple "command line" mail user agent. Much simpler than mutt and much less powerful.
I've been using it for about 20 years. There might well have been a better choice that appeared during that time.
I run my own mail server at home (for more than 30 years) partly to avoid giving control of my mail to third parties like Google. I admit that this is somewhat quixotic.
20 years ago I was triple-booting between Windows 95, OS/2, and Linux. Not only was there a build of Pine (the predecessor of Alpine) for each, but I got it to work with the same set of data files across all three OSes. I quite liked Pine, and used it for a number of years after that. I wonder if Alpine can be used with Gmail ... There seem to be quite a few answers to that on DuckDuckGo, I may need to do further investigation! -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com