pop3 is an old thing, imap should be preferred (and the same team which
provides pine, provides an easy to use imap daemon). I use pine locally
on my workstation at work, but my institute provides also several imap
servers. I had an imap server of my own in one case I was away on the
chilean Andes for several week for business.  And I have a private
account on a public provider which still uses pop ... and I access it as
a secondary incoming folder from pine.

cell phones, black berry, webmail

I'm one of the rare italians who do not own a cell phone, and I'm likely
never to use cell phones or black berry. Beside the fact I do not NEED
to be called at all times (10 odd hours I spend in the office are
enough), I'm getting older and do not see very well tiny displays.

Strangely enough you do not quote other graphical clients in addition to
webmail. Some of our staff here hate pine and prefer graphical clients
for local use, and webmail for travel. One of them even uses webmail
locally.

Personally I hate those sort of clients, I like pine because : (1) it's
fully RFC standard compliant ; (2) can be easily driven with few
keystrokes ; (3) is highly configurable ... and in a smart way which is
very close to my feeling ... almost all the times I wanted to do
something I found a way to do it in the config.

When travelling for a long time, I prefer to take with me a machine with
pine installed, and activate an imapd on my workstation. If travelling
for a short time, assumed I could not just avoid reading my e-mail for a
couple of days (which I can), I prefer ssh'ing to my machine and use
pine to the usage of a web mailer.

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