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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. Re:Why bother by Average · · Score: 2, Informative

    My reason for Pine (or mutt or such) as an option (as well as a personal webmail install and using Tbird most of the time):

    Nothing... absolutely nothing works as well at 28.8k. This road warrior ends up doing dial-up on a not-infrequent basis, even today.

  2. Re:But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gmail does have more functionality, but I can access PINE from everywhere using PuTTY (which I keep on a flash drive) or a web emulator.

  3. Re:It's alright ... by Confessed+Geek · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because its one of fastest most effective mail clients out there?

    Pine is awesome because anytime you have an SSH client, you have your mail. You also get to skip most spam, html crap in email, a easy text based interface, and no need for a gui.

    The only thing annoying about it was its license, now Alpine has all that minimalistic goodness and is under the Apache license.

  4. Re:Um... Where pine go? by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 4, Informative

    The old Pine license precluded it from being included in binary format in any distributions unless they chose to violate the license. Alpine doesn't have that problem. I don't know why this is particularly news though since I've been using Alpine on my Ubuntu Feisty box since May.

  5. And of course... by Noryungi · · Score: 3, Informative


    Pine = Program for Internet News and Email
    Pine = Pine Is Not Elm
    Alpine = Apache Licensed Pine

    Just so you know... :-)

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  6. Re:It is easier by drew · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then it must have been an awful long time ago. I used mutt from about '99-'01, and while the first question is accurate, Mutt had great support for IMAP and as far as I recall, a decent address book. The SMTP thing wasn't that big a deal to me, at least - I only used it on Linux, where it was trivially easy to set Postfix to route outgoing email though my ISP. I've actually considered going back to Mutt from time to time, but I have to use Outlook at work, and I don't get enough email at my personal account to be worth it.

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