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With KnowledgeBlue gone, I am swirling in the eddies of internet identity: up
until a few weeks ago, I had a shell account that allowed me to ping, open
outgoing ports without restriction, and run a shell-based mail reader that gave
me a single place to read and store my email. Adding to that the fact that
everything was backed up for me and I consider it to have been a fair deal.
Trouble is, it was costing me upwards of $35 per month and each 5 gigs of
storage was going to add $5 to that.
Since the switch, I have been lamenting the loss of pine, my old mail reader.
By 'old,' I mean REALLY OLD. The PINE (PINE Is Not Elm) project started in 1989
and has seen its last stable release in the last 3 years. If it would just
connect to my IMAP server, I'd still be using it, but there are some subtleties
of the process that have hampered the effort, so I'm stuck looking for a
solution to at least the email centralizing issue.
-rbarry
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