20 Nov
2015
20 Nov
'15
11:43 a.m.
Demonstrating reading your work mail (hosted by gmail) on a VMS system
via pine is totally worth the speechless responses.
--Jason
On 11/20/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin
at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Am I the only one left using Pine!?
I use mutt (text-based) on my laptop, connecting to Gmail via IMAP. When I
get non-text stuff I can just hit a key and open it in a browser or picture
viewer. It works pretty well, but I wish it didn't take so long to load the
headers each time (they're supposed to be cached but it sure takes a while
to go to my "All Mail" folder with its 33,000+ messages).
I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content
locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at
what's necessary for that. One thing I'd love would be a way to change some
threads as mutt sees them -- the client has had the ability to associate
messages with or disassociate messages from a thread manually for years,
but it seems that when I do that, Gmail later reverses my decision. I'm not
sure how I could keep synchrony with Gmail *and* have that. On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Fred wrote:
No you are not.
I use (al)pine on my OpenVMS system here as well as my main Linux host. I
have mail going back to 2004 here and since 1996 at another public access
Unix host I use. It's great when I'm out of town and can ssh in from my
phone and check the mail. :) Pine does most everything I need without
having to worry about malware, phishing, etc ... the beauty of text.
PINE.
I also have a gmail account, mostly for forwarding/viewing non-text stuff.