Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1746 mails)

[nick@xxxxxxxxxx (Nick)]

A GUI for pine would be great! xpine :) .. added to it, built in email
filtering, multiple email account send/recieve capability. etc. i think
that would be a very reqarding project, and greatly needed.

- Nick : nick@xxxxxxxxxx : www.namodn.com

On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Rachel Greenham wrote:

> 
> In message <<A HREF="msg00165.html">199904041622.JAA17908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A>>
>           Michael Perry <mperry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On  4 Apr, Rachel Greenham wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This
> > > is 4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable
> > > piece of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to
> > > use Outlook out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a
> > > perfectly good email client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever
> > > stopped using it.
> 
> You know what else I like about being back on my Acorn mailer? Decent
> reformatting of quotes! :-)
> 
> > Agreed that Netscape is bad.  Not agreed that there are no reliable or well
> > done email clients.  I have used pine for a number of years and perhaps
> > have gotten used to its interface.  I really like the virtual folders
> > feature and the level of customizability.
> 
> I'm well aware of PINE's feature set. In terms of functionality it's pretty
> definitive, but its user interface *is* apalling and although I *could* get
> used to it, I don't want to. :-) One thing I've thought of doing is to rip
> into the PINE source code and abstract the functionality into an API (if it
> isn't already, I haven't looked yet, but I guess not or people would be using
> it) and use that to write a decent GUI-based email client. Major project
> though, especially as I haven't done *any* X development yet. :-} All my
> C/C++ GUI development experience is on Acorns. My current skillset would
> point me more to doing a Java/DB style solution though it would have more
> system dependencies (Java, Postgres or similar...)
> 
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> Rachel
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