Alpine vs. Mutt
by cs
Here are some real-world reasons why Mutt sucks less than Alpine:
- Mutt can handle MIME/PGP multipart messages out of the box. This is a nightmare on Alpine. I have yet to find someone who gets topal to run in less than a day.
- Google contacts can be accessed from Mutt using goobook.
- With header and body caching enabled, Mutt is way faster at browsing IMAP directories.
- Mutt makes it embarrassingly simple to backup remote mail to a local drive: Simply save it to a local mail folder.
- Mutt will let you delete mails from a gmail IMAP inbox.
- Pine, Alpine and Re-Alpine seem to be unmaintained as of March 2012. Mutt is comparatively lively.
Realpine: last commit 3 months ago
mutt: last commit 2 months ago
unmantained? not really
> Mutt makes it embarrassingly simple to backup remote mail to a local drive: Simply save it to a local mail folder.
It’s exactly the same in pine.