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Gmail vs Pine
Snarfed has an interesting review on Gmail vs Pine. From the article: "I've used Pine as my email client for, well, pretty much forever. I use it because it's fast, powerful, stable, and very keyboardable. (I hate the mouse.) However, since I work at Google, I'm constantly bombarded with people who ask me why I don't use Gmail. After hearing the nth person brag about how much it increased their productivity, I finally broke down and tried it. I didn't expect much, since I've never liked web-based email clients. However, I made myself use it as my only email client, for a month, to give it a fair shot."
Cool!
Now tell me how I can use it with from my shell account with the lynx browser that doesn't support https much less javascript.
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Gmail is an e-mail service, usually web-based, but also accessible by any email client. Pine is - like Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, or Apple Mail - an e-mail client: an application that is used to read and send e-mail.
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A warning about gmail: I like it, but it constantly finds itself blacklisted by a number of spam control services, such as http://www.mail-abuse.com/ [mail-abuse.com]. As a result, I cannot use gmail to send to co-workers, because my company's IT dept. uses the above service. The gmail team either does not care that many organizations simply will not receive mail sent via gmail, or are unable to prevent gmail from being repeatedly blacklisted. Messages to the gmail support team about this issue appear to fall into a black hole. This is curious to me, since even hotmail was able to figure out how to keep from being constantly blacklisted.