Where did you get Mutt from? -- charlie.At 12:08 PM 02/02/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Well, all I can say is that, until today, I hadn't used pine for probably >five years. I also have never used mutt until today. > >So, lets just assume for the moment that I'm not an expert on either mailer, >which I'm not. On a blind friendlyness scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the >highest and 1 is the lowest, I'd put pine at about a 4 or 5. That is to say >that, it can be used, but it really is designed to be more graphical than we >need it to be and, while you can configure some stuff to make it better, the >defaults make it a little difficult. > >Mutt, on the other hand, has a brief menu of commands at the top of each >screen. They don't pack enough in there to make it hard to understand; and, >my only regret was that I couldn't figure out how to turn that menu off. >The only reason I'd want to do that, by the way, is because I have to listen >to that menu at the beginning of any message. Of course, there is probably >something that can be done to make that better, but I'm not an expert. > >Never-the-less, it was a joy to operate in the first five minutes or so, >which pine definetly was not. > >I'm not sure what version my isp is running, but I'll have to go and grab >the source code some time and have a look through it. > >Also, by default, the cursor tracks the bar in mutt, at least that is the >way my isp had it set up. Having not tried it on my own machine, I don't >know. > >Anyway, for what its worth, I think its cool. > >73, >Chris Peterson, KG0BP > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:49 AM >Subject: Re: mutt > > > > Well, the big difference, arguably, is the license. Mutt is GPL. > > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Peterson wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just got through with playing with mutt for the first time. I love >it! > > > It seems so much better than pine. Can anyone point out the differences > > > between pine and mutt? Anyone use elm? I used that for years and loved >it. > > > I think I'd like mutt better, though. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
