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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX systems
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:24:29 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

>>> Ahh got it! Yes, that makes much more sense. I wrote a script that
>>> plugs into my email program that enables me to download any link in an
>>> email and get the download as an email itself. It's great! I get an
>>> email with a link to an article, then I do not need to leave my email
>>> program. I just highlight the link, press a button, and a minute later
>>> the article comes in text only mode, as an email. Pure bliss! =D
>>
>> Wow. :)  What is this e-mail client again?
>
> Alpine. Check it out here: alpineapp.email. Eduardo, the current
> maintainer is active from time to time on the usenet group for alpine,
> and gives great help!
>
> It's written in C, compiles very easily (at least for me), and is
> quite "hackable". =)

It's a TUI, right?  I kinda like to compose a message, stop on it, keep
it open, visible, get back to the the inbox, search some stuff, open
other messages, perhaps compose new (quick) messages, send them out,
look at my previous message being composed and continue with writing
it...

So a TUI usually means I must draft the on-going message, get it out of
the way so I can continue the use the application.  For that reason
alone, I think I need a GUI one.

I used to love slrn for the USENET, for example.  I had not discovered
Gnus back then yet, so I would draft one article, look at another, draft
the new one, edit the previous... I did a lot of that at times.  It's
definitely okay, but with Gnus around...

But I'm glad to know that Alpine has been going great.