11/10 In light of recent motd postings, why is pine such a bad mail agent?
\_ It's a bitch to maintain, it has a huge memory footprint, it has
broken locking, it's far less configurable than just about anything
else you can chose, it uses pico by default which is a terrible
thing to give a newbie as their first editor, it enforces bad
habits, ... is that enough?
\_ so in other words you're a lazy sysadmin? Yeah, I really
\_ It's only a bad mail agent compared to all the other ones.
\_ It doesn't embarrass paolo.
wany my Doctor to be concerned about "how to use VI"
in his spare time.
\_ It's nothing about laziness. If your "Doctor" is going to
need a mailagent, have him pop his mail off the server with
his favorite application. Pine has so much wrong with it,
and so much time is wasted on maintaining it, it should be
a non-entity. it amazes me that it's not.
\_ how do you get 'lazy sysadmin' out of 'description of shitty
mail client'? the above also said *nothing* about vi or your
doctor. you're an idiot. i normally don't just flat out call
someone an idiot but in your case it'll do.
\_ "normally don't"? not likely.
\_ I'm not tom.
\_ It isn't.
\_ Exactly. I've been using mutt for about a year now and I'm just
about to switch back. There's things pine did better without me
searching through documentation and config files. Oh. pgp. Mutt
handles pgp encryption better. I'm not a sysadmin so that's
the only thing I've found that works better.
\_ what about firing off external programs to deal with
attachments or HTML mail? what about managing spam filters?
\_ what does being a sysadmin have to do with anything? just
because the motd has one very loud semi-sysadmin who likes
mutt does not mean mutt is worth half a damn. please stop
painting all sysadmins with the same stupidity brush. i know
a few motd reading sysadmins for longer than your mutt using
pseudo sysadmin with the loud mouth and none of them use mutt. |
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