Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back

TreeDork alerts us that Alpine 1.00 has now been released by the University of Washington. The full source and documentation are available."On the surface, Alpine will appear strikingly similar to the Pine Message System, and it is upwards-compatible for existing Pine users. Alpine is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The source code has been reorganized from the ground up to separate the user interface code from the underlying email engine itself. All of the source needed to build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents is included.

Comments

I guess I still have to ask

[ByOhTek]

Is Alpine still not elm?

Re:I guess I still have to ask

[dosowski]

Alpine's Like Pine: It's Not Elm

Re:I guess I still have to ask

[Hoplite3]

That's awesome! But I think they might have intended it to be

Apache License PINE

Of course, since they don't spell it out, we're free to make it whatever we want...

Re:Why bother

[Anonymous Coward]

You suggested webmail to a pine user? Prepare to be flogged!

The real question is "Why bother when you can use mutt?"

Glad I wore my asbestos boxers today.

Alpine? Pine?

[morgan_greywolf]

Why, in my day, we just had mail. That was it. Just mail. No fancy HTML support, fonts or colors, no menus. Just commands. And we liked it that way!

You kids and your newfangled elm, pine, alpine, whatever...now you kids get offa my lawn!

Re:Alpine? Pine?

[Guinness2702]

telnet slashdot.org 25
HELO guinness.internet.outthere
MAIL FROM: guinness2702@slashdot.org
RCPT TO: morgan_greywolf@slashdot.org
DATA
From: Guinness2702
To morgan_greywolf
Subject: Re: Alpine? Pine?

You got to use mail? Luxury! Luxury, I tell's you.
Back in my day, all we got was a telnet client and a dns query tool
Bah, kids don't know they're born these days.
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Re:Alpine? Pine?

[morgan_greywolf]

You had DNS?!

Lucky.

We just had a really huge, sloppily-maintained copy of /etc/hosts on each systems.

Re:Alpine? Pine?

[Guinness2702]

Hmm, missed an opportunity then. Okay, here goes

*sharp intake of breath*

Why when I was young all we got was a PDP-11 with a card puncher with cards that we had to give to the office boy who'd get on his bike, take to the cards and the one card reader the company had to the other office where they'd read them in reply to the message and the give the cards with the replay, and the reader back to the boy who'd bring the reply back to our office!

Re:Why bother

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Also it lets you compose in your favorite editor easily.

Which would of course be Emacs. /me runs for cover

Re:Inertia?

[vyrus128]

"All programs attempt to expand until they can read mail. Those that can't are replaced by those that can." -- Jamie Zawinzki

Re:It is easier

[billcopc]

So what the heck is mutt, then ? 'ed' with a new name ?

Name change

[kvap]

> Why Alpine Message System (AMS)?

Because Pine Message System sounded too whiney :)

Re:It is easier

[snoyberg]

No, silly. Ed is the standard editor

Who needs Pine ...

[VeteranNoob]

... when there is a venerable email client installed by default in almost every O/S.

Yes, I'm speaking of telnet.

If god wanted you to use a GUI, he wouldn't have invented ASCII!

He's not dead ....

[Mean Variance]

He's pining for the fjords.

You can lose the apostrophes, too

[JavaRob]

Alpine's Like Pine: It's Not Elm Alpine, Like Pine, Is Not Elm

Re: attachments and search

[Beetle B.]

Take attachments. I'm running pine over ssh, There's your problem.

Re:Webmail vs. Pine

[Anonymous Coward]

Interestingly, all the "HTML email is evil/long live the terminal/80x25 should be enough for anyone" posts are from people with UIDs less than 850000. Coincidence?

The grandfathers these days...

Re:It is easier

[Trinn]

So basically.....you want labels :-P (its just funny to see someone want something that so many people don't see the point of)