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Why alpine instead of mutt? It must be some 20 years since I least heard about pine or any of its forks
Because I'm too dumb to configure mutt.
Alpine is an email client.
Mutt is a maildir reader which you can use as a part of your DIY email client.
… what? mutt can talk imap and smtp natively, I don’t know what else you need to qualify as an “email client”
Since when? I made two attempts over many years and an elaborate offlineimap and msmtp setup was needed both times.
🤷♀️ I was using mutt for both smtp and imap in 2002, don’t know how long before that it worked — but at least since then.
Alright then, I guess it's time for attempt #3 with the newly acquired knowledge. Thanks!
Best of luck my friend