Subject: Re: lkml subject line
To: mharris@opensourceadvocate.org (Mike A. Harris)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:16:21 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mhaque@haque.net (Mohammad A. Haque), mharrold@cas.org (Mike Harrold),
        dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse),
        dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW),
        matti.aarnio@zmailer.org (Matti Aarnio),
        g.liakhovetski@ragingbull.com (Guennadi Liakhovetski),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102130353220.1123-100000@asdf.capslock.lan> from "Mike A. Harris" at Feb 13, 2001 03:54:46 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> >Is there a mail reader nowadays that doesn't let you do some sort of
> >filtering?
> 
> He uses Elm, which as far as I know is obsolete, unmaintained and
> full of bugs and even has Y2K problems.  That is the last I heard
> anyway.  Alan Cox would likely know more, and has perhaps even
> fixed Elm.

Elm has maintainers it has the bugs fixed, it just doesnt want to evolve 
any further. Rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

> PINE is virtually everywhere, and is a good elm replacement,
> having been initially based on the elm code... (PINE==Pine Is Not
> Elm)

I've played with both pine and mutt. mutt is by the better mail system IMHO,
but pine has an easier learning curve.
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