[2535] in Release_7.7_team
Re: IMAP text client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Jan 12 17:45:08 2001
Message-Id: <200101122245.RAA14700@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:38:17 EST."
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:45:02 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> My preference at the moment is for (2). A text client may not get as
>> much attention from testers as an X client, so an extra year of
>> semi-experimental use is probably a good thing.
I'm going to disagree; I think pine would be a better choice for our
environment. I started both applications today; I like to consider
myself a fairly competant user, and mutt gave me some trouble and I
exposed some bugs, but with pine I was able to send and receive mail
easily.
pine can read mh style folders, and its IMAP support appears solid.
As a bonus, many users (grad students, and other people who have had
UNIX shell accounts elsewhere) will be familiar with its use because
it's so common. It's certainly the piece of software I've heard the
most requests for from new users.
It does seem like the sort of client sophisticated users will
outgrow, but such people can generally fend for themselves, and
shouldn't have problems finding mutt in a locker, or configuring Gnus,
etc.
I'd like to see us include pine in the next full release.
Garry
