[OS X TeX] What is hijacking a thread?

[Arthur Snoke]

I had used pine on Sun Solaris and have just set up alpine (using imap to the 
Sun) on my mac.  I also use Thunderbird, mostly because of its spam filtering. 
Is there a way to do spam filtering with alpine?

Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:12 AM, BenBehr wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, crawling back off to my rock again, dreaming about the days of 
>>> plaintext mail clients...
>>
>> Hi, i am using Mail and i am not really satisfied either. Do you have 
>> any suggestions for a good easy to learn plaintext mail client?
> 
> 
> Both mutt and alpine are excellent, sophisticated text-based mail 
> clients.  There are several good sites around to help you get them 
> nicely integrated into the OS X environment.  I prefer mutt's interface 
> and its superior configurability, but in my experience alpine deals much 
> better with large IMAP folders.
> 
> -chris