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-PINE (Program
for InterNet News
& Email) is
a console based mail client written at The University of Washington.
+[
PINE | http://www.washington.edu/pine/] is an [Acronym] for __P__rogram
for InterNet __N__ews
& __E__mail.
+
+It's
a console based mail client written at The University of Washington but licensed under non-[Free] terms, so that many [LinuxDistribution]s (such as [Debian]) do not contain it
. Features include
-PINE has over 25 Million users and has some very nice features.
* Support for Roles - This allows you to easily assume different Roles (ie. From Addresses / Signatures) when composing mail.
* Excellent [IMAP]/IMAPS Support
* It's very quick and can be used over any [SSH] connection, unlike other graphical [MailClient]s.
-* Very simple menu and key configurations unlike other console mail clients such as [Mutt] which take a lot more learning.
+* Very simple menu and key configurations unlike other console mail clients such as [Mutt] which take a lot more learning. (Of course this can also be construed as a weakness.)
* It's not MozillaMail
-The
major disadvantage with PINE
is that it will not check for new email in multiple INBOX's
automatically. It will do this well if
you press Tab however. Also some OSS Fanatics have issues with it's licensing as you cannot redistribute modified code or binaries, they must be distributed seperately. This keeps it out of some major distributions such as [Debian].
-
-You can get more information about PINE at it's homepage http://www.washington
.edu/pine/
+A
major disadvantage is that it will not check for new email in multiple INBOXes
automatically:
you need to
press Tab.
