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What happened to pine, by the way? It was absolutely fantastic because it was minimalistic. I like mutt, but it's not the same.

unveres 8y ago
There's alpine, but I haven't use it yet, so can't say if it's as good ;)
stevekemp 8y ago
There was a fork/successor called alpine, I recall having to setup for my wife. But beyond that I think that mutt eventually "won". (Especially when development started picking up again with mutt-ng, etc.) I wrote a console-based mail-client with lua-based scripting, over at https://lumail.org/ https://lumail.org/ but I don't think I have more than 50 hard-core users. It seems like most people use mutt, and work around its annoyances, or use web-browser for their mail. (I realize at some point notmuch came out and became popular, but I've never had a strong feeling for how popular. I think I'm a little biased since I read of people using it, but nobody "local" to me does.)
- Ologn 8y ago
  I was used to pine and pico so I migrated to alpine and nano. Alpine works fine for me, alpine is very much like pine. I have spamassassin tagging mail as spam, and I have an alpine filter that moves those tagged messages to a possible spam folder. I was used to pine when mutt came out, so I always used pine or alpine. You can check both out and see which you prefer.
jonah-archive 8y ago
The UW no longer wanted to support Pine but they were unable to release it under the existing license. It was mostly rewritten as Alpine ( https://www.washington.edu/alpine/overview/story.html https://www.washington.edu/alpine/overview/story.html ), and is now sort of maintained by other folks: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/ http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/ I still use it regularly and it still works well, but I should probably be looking for something else.
- nichos 8y ago
  Not at all similar, but mutt is a fantastic replacement. Like Vim, very powerful once you get in to it.

unveres 8y ago

There's alpine, but I haven't use it yet, so can't say if it's as good ;)

stevekemp 8y ago

There was a fork/successor called alpine, I recall having to setup for my wife. But beyond that I think that mutt eventually "won". (Especially when development started picking up again with mutt-ng, etc.) I wrote a console-based mail-client with lua-based scripting, over at https://lumail.org/ https://lumail.org/ but I don't think I have more than 50 hard-core users. It seems like most people use mutt, and work around its annoyances, or use web-browser for their mail. (I realize at some point notmuch came out and became popular, but I've never had a strong feeling for how popular. I think I'm a little biased since I read of people using it, but nobody "local" to me does.)

Ologn 8y ago
I was used to pine and pico so I migrated to alpine and nano. Alpine works fine for me, alpine is very much like pine. I have spamassassin tagging mail as spam, and I have an alpine filter that moves those tagged messages to a possible spam folder. I was used to pine when mutt came out, so I always used pine or alpine. You can check both out and see which you prefer.

jonah-archive 8y ago

The UW no longer wanted to support Pine but they were unable to release it under the existing license. It was mostly rewritten as Alpine ( https://www.washington.edu/alpine/overview/story.html https://www.washington.edu/alpine/overview/story.html ), and is now sort of maintained by other folks: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/ http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/ I still use it regularly and it still works well, but I should probably be looking for something else.

nichos 8y ago
Not at all similar, but mutt is a fantastic replacement. Like Vim, very powerful once you get in to it.