From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   >> Alpine. Check it out here: alpineapp.email. Eduardo, the current   
   >> maintainer is active from time to time on the usenet group for alpine,   
   >> and gives great help!   
   >>   
   >> It's written in C, compiles very easily (at least for me), and is   
   >> quite "hackable". =)   
   >   
   > It's a TUI, right?  I kinda like to compose a message, stop on it, keep   
   > it open, visible, get back to the the inbox, search some stuff, open   
   > other messages, perhaps compose new (quick) messages, send them out,   
   > look at my previous message being composed and continue with writing   
   > it...   
   >   
   > So a TUI usually means I must draft the on-going message, get it out of   
   > the way so I can continue the use the application.  For that reason   
   > alone, I think I need a GUI one.   
      
   Ahh... yes. The closest you can get in alpine is "postpone" messages. So I   
   write, then I postpone it, which means it gets saved in a special folder. I can   
   then continue to do other stuff, and once I hit "C" for compose, alpine asks if   
   I want to compose a new message or finish a saved on, and I have then a list of   
   saved messages. It is a TUI in the terminal, so not possible to have several   
   open messages in parallel I'm afraid.   
      
   I guess another way is to have several open terminals, but then it does feel as   
   if a real GUI is better for you. I can open several alpine programs at the same   
   time, but for me, the regular workflow works.   
      
   > I used to love slrn for the USENET, for example.  I had not discovered   
   > Gnus back then yet, so I would draft one article, look at another, draft   
   > the new one, edit the previous... I did a lot of that at times.  It's   
   > definitely okay, but with Gnus around...   
   >   
   > But I'm glad to know that Alpine has been going great.   
      
   Oh, yes, it has a few decades under the belt! =)   
      
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