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My very first email account (when starting university in the early 90s) was via Pine on a unix machine; and i loved it! Sure, the excitement of "a new tech thin
by mxuribe 4y ago
My very first email account (when starting university in the early 90s) was via Pine on a unix machine; and i loved it! Sure, the excitement of "a new tech thing" was there, but also the fast, productive simplicity of it all: i can send a message to someone anywhere in the world quite easily! Years later when i started getting into linux as my personal machine/daily driver, i tried using mutt. Mutt didn't stick for me then. I give mutt (and other terminal clients like it) tons of respect, but for me it has been more an issue on my preference side; and nothing against mutt. And, now over the years (with linux very much my daily driver for years now), I find myself leveraging the terminal much much more - e.g. reading RSS feed via newsboat, etc....sort of a return to the basics, but basics that enable me to be far more productive. But one of the areas where i still can't seem to be comfortable in the terminal anymore is email. I think its because of attachments that i constantly need send and receive, and maybe the workflow for that is not ideal *for me* - i don't know. Or, maybe I've gotten so used to Thunderbird, that my brain seems happy there, where it has been happy in the terminak for other areas - who knows. In any case, i welcome more terminal apps! Yes, keep on improving mutt for others, but maybe this new one might work for me (and others who haven't clicked with mutt and its ilk). Kudos and good luck to the makers of Meli! (Who knows, maybe i'll give it a spin)
- jdmoreira 4y agoI was thinking was using pine in a unix shell account at university in 2002 and I have the fondest memories! That was an awesome client
- buildbot 4y agoPeople still use (al)pine at the University of Washington, where is was created! They even have stats on it going back a long time: https://staff.washington.edu/corey/pine-stats/ https://staff.washington.edu/corey/pine-stats/
- jll29 4y agoI agree Pine was a cute little program, and it served many people well at the time. But the most important functions for me today in an email client are 1. fast search and 2. auto-complete of contacts and Pine/Alpine was lacking there. (Gmail has great search but its UX overall is lacking - I find it confusing in many ways and it suppresses important information (e.g. headers, sometimes even an e-mail's subject line). It would be nice to have a non-cloud email client with such a fast search.)
- akho 4y agoI find notmuch search works fater for me than Gmail’s did (no network round trip). It’s maybe a bit dumber, but that does not matter too much in practice. meli seems to work with notmuch.