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to: Poindexter Fortran
from: Vk3jed
date: 2008-05-21 20:05:06
subject: Re: PINE Question

-=> Poindexter Fortran wrote to Digital Noise <=-

 PF> Whichever works. You're probably better off using your ISPs SMTP server
 PF> unless you have an MX record for your SUSE box; mail sent from a non-mX
 PF> machine on a DSL line look like a zombie spam bot to some mail filters.

Many filters will see such email as zombie bots.  Also, some ISPs filter
outbound traffic on port 25, so it is safest to use the ISP's SMTP server.

 PF> PINE rocks.

 PF> As for it being discontinued, I haven't heard. The server that they're
 PF> currently using is going away, so they'll need to move things over, and
 PF> they're working on a project called ALPINE that is (I think) a license
 PF> change to the Apache license from a BSD-like license.

If they move to an Apache style license, we might see Pine back in some of the
Linux distros that dropped it in the past.

 PF> With all of the webmail, GMail, Yahoo Mail, remote mail options, I
 PF> still like SSHing into my box and running PINE to check my email, even
 PF> after 10+ years of trying to move to MUTT.  :)

I couldn't get used to Mutt.  Pine's always been my favourite text mode reader.


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