pine

[Accessys@smart.net]

nothing wrong with Pine, I'm reading and responding to this list using
Pine have used it for e-mail for ages.  only Yahoo seems to have
figured out how to put spam on it. and is very very fast and robust.

Bob


On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> NoOp wrote:
> > On 07/24/2009 05:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > <snip PGP stuff>
> >>>>  I was recalled that years ago I used "pine" as my email client. I
> >>>> tried $ sudo aptitude install pine, but it is not available from the
> >>>> Ubuntu sources. Do you need to to get the tar-ball and compile pine?
> >>> Karl,  "alpine" is the replacement they ceased developing pine under its
> >>> old licence I think, and moved the codebase to alpine.
> >>> If you cant find it goto ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> 	Hi Res I put pine in google and it took me to washinton.edu and I d/l
> >> pine for a deb and tried to install but it's missing a lib file that
> >> Ubuntu does not have.The whole thing was to see why you don't like the
> >> man pages and I agree. They seem to think you already have been using
> >> procmail and procmailrc which was not there when I last used it. The man
> >> pages are very bad!
> > <snip silly PGP signing stuff>
> >
> > Does:
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install alpine
> >
> > not work for you?
> >
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/alpine
> >
> >
> 	I expect it works fine. I want to get old pine to work but it may be
> more work than it is worth. No plan to use it again just a trip back in
> time.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
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