On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
I don't understand why that much people are using MUAs without a GUI, anyway, a penfriend is blind, reading braille, a good reason to use a GUI free MUA. An Email I received yesterday was written with User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Debian testing and unstable are at 2.02-3 too. I don't think that Alpin will be dropped by major distros.
My reason for switching to a text based mail client (from gmail) was that i had to use 32kbps internet for a while. Loading gmail was a pain, and looking for options, i found alpine and mutt. Now, text interfaces are my preference, firstly because my computer is an old p4 with 1 gig of ram. And secondly, they fit nicely into tmux (earlier screen). -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org