I can't seem to build pine on ubuntu the saga: now it's cc errors??

[Phillip Susi]

It has been a long time since I used pine, but IIRC, I was using 
fetchmail to get the mail, the problem was that pine read()s in and 
parses the entire mailbox every time you open it.  That takes a LONG 
time with a 50 MB mailbox.  I decided a long time ago that any mail 
reader worth a salt keeps a separate index file and memory maps the main 
mail file so it can handle arbitrarily large mailboxes with ease.

Surely there has to be a command line mail reader that can do this?

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Well to this I can only say "to each his own" As to how many emails I
> get, well I've been using it for years, and have at times been signed
> up for several verbose mailing lists. Sufficiently so to choke my
> mailbox if I didn't remember to run fetchmail. (err that was before I
> discovered that MANY mailing lists could be had at news.gmane.org
> leaving my actual mailbox free for (mostly spam <sigh>) other mail.
> 
> Either way the trick to using pine efficiently with large mailboxes is
> to download them to local mail/news spools or mailbox files where pine
> doesn't try to SORT the whole remote mailbox through the network
> connection... I won't pretend it'd search capability impress me but
> it has other uses. One of which is that I don't have to put up with an
> annoying point n click interface to use it. But please try to avoid
> saying things like: "worst mail client of all time",  & "just about
> anything has to be better than" my choice in software tools or I might be
> tempted to restart the great holy war saying something similar about your
> chosen emacs...
> 
> vi RULES FOREVER! (except where superseded by vim...)
>