On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Richard Rauch wrote:

> I use PINE, personally.  It is dedicated to the task of doing email, and I
> find it the easiest to start using.  If you like to tinker, you can
> arrange for your window manager to provide a menu-item that launches an
> xterm which in turn runs PINE.  Alternatively, you could use ELM or some
> other common text-based mail reader.  (NOTE: Even though it runs out of a
> shell in an xterm window, PINE does support the mouse.  I remember being a
> little annoyed at the way that PINE uses the mouse, though, since it gets
> in the way of drag-selecting text.  So, I disabled this PINE feature.)

That used to bug me, too, until I found you can still copy/paste by
holding the Shift key down while clicking. Pine is hard to beat. :-)