On 10 Jan 2005, Philip Tellis spake thusly:
Sometime on Jan 9, Rony Bill assembled some asciibets to say:
The Mozilla Thunderbird email client really rocks. I downloaded the windows as well as the linux version and both install and work fine.
It only works with a POP/IMAP server and does not support reading inbox from /var/[spool/]mail/philip so I cannot use it. It also does not support dynamic signatures.
Both these features are supported by pine. You'd think that a modern email client would at least be able to match the feature set of one that's been around for almost 20 years. :P
Does Pine support multiple backends? Does Pine do spellchecks on the fly? Does Pine do ... ... ...
Pine ? Man, you should check out Gnus. Complete integration with Emacs.