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Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back

Posted by Soulskill on from the old-friend-new-face dept.

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.

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  1. I guess I still have to ask by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Alpine still not elm?

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    1. Re:I guess I still have to ask by dosowski · · Score: 5, Funny

      Alpine's Like Pine: It's Not Elm

  2. Re:Why bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Alpine? Pine? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  4. Re:Alpine? Pine? by Guinness2702 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:Alpine? Pine? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    You had DNS?!

    Lucky.

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

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  6. Re:Why bother by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also it lets you compose in your favorite editor easily.

    Which would of course be Emacs. /me runs for cover
  7. Name change by kvap · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Why Alpine Message System (AMS)?

    Because Pine Message System sounded too whiney :)