[olug] email a binary file (uuencode no longer popular?)

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Tue Aug 21 04:56:35 UTC 2007


Jay Hannah wrote:
> Anyone else notice the
> slow disappearance of default installs of pine? Am I the only uuencode +
> pine user left? So alone...   -whimper-

IIRC, pine was abandoned because of its license. GNU Nano replaces Pico...

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Obi-Wan wrote:
> So am I the only dinosaur left that still uses elm as my primary
> email client?  I just can't bear to stop using vi to compose emails.
> I have to use Thunderbird at work, and it really sucks sometimes.
> GUI editors are just so bloody inefficient...

I have a hunch that you can configure KMail to use vim for its editor...



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