Could 2007 be the Year of Pine?

Well, I doubt this will really be the "Year of Pine" as much as I'd like it to, but I feel that Pine is a much under-used resource for e-mail in a world of gmail, Outlook, and slow, slow, slow online-only web-based applications.

Pine has become very effective with my new mail setup as described in
previous posts.

I had a slight problem getting pinnnne to read my existing IMAP folders. Apparently, the IMAP server I am using, which installs therough Ubuntu's (and likely Debian's) apt-get installer requires a slightly different configuration to find the folders:

http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/pine-info/collections/

And there you have it. With that little tweak, I am able to very effectively use my Nokia 770 for all my e-mail needs while I'm away from my bulkier computers. And even when I am using the high-powered computer, it is amazing how much faster it is to use Pine than some other program.
Perhaps the best advantage, however, is the fact that when i compose or read a mail message, that message takes up all my screen so that I do not get distracted by other, incoming messages, or other old mail I have not yet read or responded, etc. The simple layout forces me to concentrate and, more inmportantly, finish the mail I am working on.

And now for the blasphemous addendum: I have begun to use mutt more and more as I work within the shell. Mutt has a couple features lacking in pine that I find really effective and useful. The first is the integration with abook, which I find to be a vastly superior contact management software. The second is actually a pair of display features: a threaded view of the messages, and a "frame view" interface kind of like the way slrn works.

So, the "Year of Pine" may become the "Year of Text" unless alpine can come out of nowhere to challenge mutt. Still, right now mutt and pine co-exist pretty well, and each has their own particular uses.