Advice on CLI mail client that support mail threading

[Pete Ryland]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:51:02PM +0800, John wrote:
> Shawn McMahon wrote:
> >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
> 
> Last I looked and interpreted the licence (quite recently) you _could_ 
> include it. I suspect modifying it (eg to fix bugs) and distributing the 
> changes version is the real problem.

It can't be included for this exact reason.  See the DFSG FAQ.  The author
said that modified binaries cannot be distributed which makes it non-free.

> I use pine, I could never come to terms with the mangy dog, but it
> certainly has some bugs and misfeatures that need attention.

Try it, you may find, like a lot of us already have, that it's much better
anyway.

Pete