Pine in Hoary

[Stuart Bishop]

Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:13:51PM +0100, Martin Schmitz wrote:
> 
>>If you refer to mutt then I have to say that it's not nearly as usable
>>as other email clients including pine if you want to use IMAP.
> 
> 
> What does Mutt have to do with IMAP? Surely that's the job of fetchmail,
> although it is hackish too.

The advantage of IMAP is you store your email on the server. fetchmail 
just treats IMAP servers like POP servers and sucks the messages down to 
your local box, where you have to worry about backups and all those 
other administrative headaches.

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