From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-px0-f170.google.com (mail-px0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0DDC1A3F2 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:35:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pxi17 with SMTP id 17so1123282pxi.29 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.117.21 with SMTP id p21mr93873wfc.86.1283747956666; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com (ip72-208-233-7.ph.ph.cox.net [72.208.233.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm10423099wad.6.2010.09.05.21.39.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 21:39:12 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: questions about text-based e-mail Message-ID: <20100906043912.GC26444@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:35:19 -0000 Hi, You were asking about text mail readers but wanna use them for news as well. Mutt is great for e-mail but I can't see how one could read news with it. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I've never seen it done. When I used to use pine, I recall it could double up as a news reader. So I would imagine that you could do the same with alpine since it forked of from pine as I remember. With mutt, the cursor tracks right along with the current selection in the message and alias lists without any special settings. While inside a message body, I use the review functions to read the message text. I generally love mutt for efficient digesting of my e-mails. It is so powerful just from a stand point of usage with its ability to tag messages for later processing, IMAP support and easy integration with externals editors and pgp. I use thunderbird while in gnome to more easily work with some web content but I just find mutt to be so much faster to use.