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otherchirps - 3 years

minder - 30 years

thraxil - 4 years

nimasmi - 7 years

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osiixy - 23 years

bocke - 20 years

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Replaced by mu4e on emacs

foreverytechnie

2007

jtauber

Elm was the defacto standard when I first started using email on Unix systems but Pine was the up-and-comer. Of course, Pine also spawned the pico editor.