Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> writes:
People point and laugh at me when they see me using (al)pine. Oh, how primitive! Yeah, but I can grep for my mail, and you have to use Outhouse and rely on the sexchange sewer returning valid search results, which it doesn't do when I search for a known phrase in my mailbox and it only returns 3 copies out of the 7 I was able to find with grep.
Is alpine developed the same way as mutt? That is, everybody makes monkey patches, and ever few years the mutt dev takes the twenty most popular patches and merges them together and calls it a new release. I've become a bit grumpy with mutt since looking under the hood to see if it spoke IMAP's COPY verb, and finding that. alpine's probably the only alternative. (Well, I hear gnus can actually speak IMAP reasonably fast nowadays, but I'm not sure I want to go back to it for more than NNTP...)