Re: FC4 Pine replacement?

[John Summerfield]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Jonathan Underwood  wrote:
> > > The closest thing I have been able to find to pine is something called
> > > cone [1].
> > > So far though I keep going back to pine since that is what my fingers are
> > > trained to use. :-)
> >
> > As an aside, cone is available from fedora extras, and is quite nice.
> > Not as featureful as pine though.
>
> Sorry, but what is the point of using pine when one can use
> Thunderbird, Evolution, and so on? Has pine got something so special
> to make it your elected e-mail client?

The point of PINE is that it works on a text console. I regularly use 
Mozilla, Thunderbird, PINE Is Not Elm, Mail (OS X), sometimes kmail 
Evolution and Mutt on the same mailboxes.