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On Pine
Fri, July 18, 2008 - 12:05 PM PST
At work, the IT department uses Microsoft Exchange, and if you're running a desktop supported by IT, you run Outlook as your mail client. I keep a copy of Windows XP on my work laptop for those sorts of occassions, but usually just connect to a terminal server and run Outlook from there. Early this week when I logged in one morning, I saw that Outlook wasn't installed on the terminal server any more. And I really needed to send an email. So I configured Pine on my workstation to talk to the Exchange cluster. I've been using it as my mail client ever since.
I hadn't used Pine as my primary mailer for several years, but I have to admit, it's refreshing. So minimalist. So clean.