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Why pine?
Authored by: baba on Apr 05, '02 06:04:08PM

I'm curious what the advantages of running Pine locally are, since for me the big advantage is keeping all my mail on a central server. The idea of using POP mail seems goofy to me, since I like to have all my mail -- new, sent, and otherwise -- accessible from any machine any time.
But if there were a way to run Pine locally, to take advantage of the goodies mentioned here, while keeping all the data remote, that would be sweet. It's amazing that with all the graphical goo-gaws out there nothing yet approaches Pine for clean functionality.



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Why pine?
Authored by: DAC on Apr 06, '02 02:08:58PM

The great thing about running Pine localy is that it is just another email client. It can read mail on your local system if you want to set it up that way, but you don't need to.

Pine can read remote mail stores on both IMAP and POP servers. The configuration is a bit more complex, and usually not documented by your ISP, but with a bit of playing, you can usually get it to work. Pine will check multiple email accounts if you want it to, and can send email out as "different" people depending on who you want to be. It has all the features of all the GUI email programs you know about, but is fast and flexable.

Pine can store all of your mail (including sent-mail) in remote folders, just like a remote version of pine does. This depends on your ISP having all these folders on an avaliable IMAP server.

Running Pine localy lets you do great things like attach files without FTP, save files to your local directories, not have pauses when you are just trying to type, use transparency in the terminal, etc.

The only time I have found it is better to run Pine remotely is when you are doing searches on large folders of email (when the email is on the remote server). It is much faster for the remote version of pine to search remote folders, as it is "local" disk access to the process at that point.

Once you get pine set up to run localy, you will never look back.



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