Pine: The Best Mail Reader Ever

Posted on August 01, 2006

At the big party on Saturday, I was trying to explain the joys of using Pine as an email client to the illustrious Ali Bagheri . As expected, Ali wondered if I had completely lost my mind. Today, I feel somewhat vindicated as I just learned that Linus himself is a fellow pine user.

“Other than those three parts, the only thing I care deeply about is my email reader. I use pine - not because it’s necessarily the greatest email reader ever, but because I’m used to it, and it does what I need it to do with a minimum of fuzz.” - Linus Torvalds

Some other famous pine users include Ivo Jacobus Godelieve Maria Janssen, Jeff Lawson and Derek Hunt.

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  1. Ali Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:37:46 MDT

    you just like it because it has a recursive name.

  2. Administrator Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:50:00 MDT

    if God used email, he would read it with Pine.

  3. Brandon Philips Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:39:24 MDT

    Hey, I ran across your blog from BarCampTexas.

    You should give mutt a shot. If nothing else it has a kick ass slogan: “All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less”

    The only famous person I know that uses it is Greg K-H.

    Brandon

  4. Mars Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:31:47 MDT

    I loved Pine in 1995 when I had one email account on a remote UNIX System V user account. The only messages I received were from fellow plain texters.

    But somewhere along the way, my life became complicated by GUI-cheese & having to read attachments. And then OS X Mail.app got a lot better.

    I bow to your purity.

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