definitely...pine is the best mail program out there.Period. Mutt is hell to configure(even understand) and the graphical mail readers are even more worse. The only problem with pine is that there is yet no GPG integration.As soon as this becomes available(inherently) in pine...it will be the BEST mail app ever...no matter what ts license says...;) --Rishabh
-- Rishabh Manocha http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha **********Your Quote for the day********** The Englishman is a tippler, the Frenchman is a cur, the Dutchman is a peasant. Saying ****************************************** On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, they aren't free softwares but they are the most killer ones on unixes. > I was frustated on Debian machine, configuring mutt, until I hit thit simple > command:-) > apt-get source pine; > > rrs > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:36:09 +0530 > Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [For the proud Pine and Pico users out there. ;) - Sandip] > > > > http://www.asty.org/articles/20010702pine.html > > > > When Non-Free is "Free Enough" > > by Chris Allegretta > > > > The University of Washington's Pine mailer. A popular piece of software, > > indeed, as is its editor component, Pico. So much so that most people > > turn a blind eye to its license: a license, I feel, that is as bad as > > anything that has ever come out of Redmond. > > > > Virtually every major GNU/Linux distribution ships binaries of Pine and > > Pico with the notable exception of Debian. After all these programs are > > veritable mainstays of the Unix world. Ironically, according to the > > legal terms of the program, Debian may be the only distribution legally > > allowed to distribute the program! > > > > [...] > > > > Why do I feel this licenses is as bad as Microsoft's licenses? I don't, > > I think it's worse. With any commercial license, you do not ever expect > > to see or have rights over the source code to the software. In the case > > of Pine, users are lulled into thinking they have rights to do what they > > want with the software, but really they don't. And if UW makes the > > license more proprietary or simply stops updating it, there's nothing > > they can do about it. > > > > So, what can we do? For one thing, stop referring to Pine and Pico as > > Open Source! And if you can't handle that (and you know who you are), at > > least don't nominate them for awards specifically for Open Source > > programs! Also do not lump Pine and Pico in with other GPL covered > > programs on web pages or when discussing Free Software, as this may > > confuse people into thinking that Pine and Pico are in fact also Free > > Software programs, which they are not. > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > -- > > Sandip Bhattacharya > > sandip (at) puroga.com > > Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. > > Work: http://www.puroga.com Home: http://www.sandipb.net > > > > GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > > - -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) > Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 > GPG Key ID: 0x04F130BC > - ------ > FORTUNE ! > > "Since it's a foregone conclusion that Microsoft will be littering its XML > with pointers to Win32-based components, the best that can be said about > its adoption of XML is that it will make it easier for browsers and > applications on non-Windows platforms to understand which parts of the > document it must ignore." > -- Nicholas Petreley, "Computerworld", 3 September, 2001 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAdGM/4Rhi6gTxMLwRAkprAKC0vcINaDFp2PzF1TLpYipnJr3JmQCgkArd > 8azi5BaWp42el1g+GujcW+I= > =BtBj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
