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by leif 5658 days ago
Get your downvoting fingers ready... ;-)

AL-motherf###ing-PINE

I swear, I've tried to get in to gui mail apps. I even got pretty far once with gmail's offline mode. I've tried so damn hard, but I can't stay away from alpine. It's so fast, so small, I never have to look for anything. All the commands are staring me in the face at all times. You cannot ask for a better UI.

[p.s. how do you emit literal asterisks here, I've never run across this problem before?]
1 comments
ubernostrum 5658 days ago
I swear, I've tried to get into console mail apps. But I've yet to find one designed for the post-1975 era. Hint: I have a bunch of accounts, all using IMAP, and I don't run an SMTP server locally.

Mutt, Pine, sup, and everybody else: I'm looking at you.

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leif 5658 days ago
You can use alpine and mutt just fine with remote imap and smtp, including gmail. It's not hard.

Apart from "they look old" (which is a fake argument), what about console mail clients makes them feel as though they aren't designed for the modern era? Sure, they don't look like other mail clients, but that's as much other clients' fault as theirs. What exactly about their UI, intrinsically, do you dislike? Or do you just love the mouse too much to give it up?

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