Subject: ELM vs. PINE

From: [email-masked] (Thommy Brolin)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 13:48:57 GMT

My organisation is currently evaluating ELM and PINE, to choose
one of them as the main Mailer.

My personal impression is that PINE seems to have more nice
features and better alias/address handling, but that ELM has
a better user interface (E.g. PINE seems to be mixing 'M', 'Q'
and 'E' when exiting various screens).

MIME seems to be working OK on both, at least as far as my
limited tests show.

What is the opinion among all you experienced users? What are
the pros and cons of the two products?

All input will is appreciated.

This has been cross-posted (I hope...) to both 'comp.mail.elm'
and 'comp.mail.pine'.

Thommy Brolin
[email-masked]

"Never take life too seriously, you'll never come out of it
 alive, anyway"

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Rafn)
Date: 20 Jun 1995 23:30:05 GMT

>MIME seems to be working OK on both, at least as far as my

Pine uses it's own MIME stuff, so it's kind of a pain to add types (i.e.
auto-display attached GIFs, etc).  ELM uses metamail, so you can do
ANYTHING with it.  Pine's a lot easier to attach files, but you can't
specify type of attachment.

>the pros and cons of the two products?

I like them both.  It's easier to teach Pine to a new user, but ELM does
more stuff.  One major annoyance about pine is that it handles arrow
keys on terminals other than VT/ANSI very badly.  
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