From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Nevertheless, this idea of showing a menu of saved drafts to continue   
   the composition is quite a nice workaround.   
      
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