Advice on CLI mail client that support mail threading

[Shawn McMahon]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:34:22PM +0200, Michael Shigorin said:
> 
> Somewhat more integrated and user-friendly CLI MUA is Pine;
> although I've personally abandoned it for mutt long ago due
> to the latter being programmable and way more robust with
> growing mail traffic volumes.

Pine also has the disadvantage that, not being free software, it can't
be included in Ubuntu.  This means you either have to compile it
yourself and have it outside the packaging system, build packages
yourself, use Debian's experimental source and diff packages and run
the risk that something in there isn't Ubuntu-compatible (and compile
it), or use U of Washington's precompiled Debian package and run the
same risk.  The latter two options will be increasingly problematic
over time, but all are doable if you don't mind the extra work.

You might find that using one of the Pine-like menu configs for Mutt
allows you to largely duplicate your familiar user experience without
being locked-in to non-free software.  One is distributed with Mutt; on
Ubuntu you can find it in /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/Pine.rc.


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