[TriLUG] Moving beyond pine

[Andrew Perrin]

All right folks, this is an advice request.

I've been using pine for email since about 1992. I like certain things 
about it, but frankly I prefer GUI-ish mail interfaces such as 
thunderbird. What's holding me back are two minor but irritating, related 
issues:

1. I like pine's saved folder rule that puts outgoing email, by default, 
in a folder named after the recipient's email address (stripped of 
domain). This is very intuitive to me, and lets me quickly grep for 
whatever I need. I haven't seen other clients do this.

2. Relatedly, I have 15 years worth of saved messages in such format, and 
it woulld be absolutely imperative that I be able to access them with 
whatever new reader I choose.

Thoughts? I don't mean to start a flame war, just to see if I'm missing 
anything that would make my life more colorful.

Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA