Alpine (email client)

Alpine is a free email program that is being developed at the University of Washington.

Alpine 1.0 was published on 20 December 2007.

Alpine is a new version of the Pine message system, which has been expanded to include support for Unicode and other features. Alpine is designed for both inexperienced email user as well as for demanding, experienced users. Alpine is like Pine previously developed at the University of Washington. Alpine can be learned by trial and error and by using the context-sensitive help. The user interface is customizable.

Licensing

Alpine is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2. On 29 November 2006 the first alpha version was released publicly, whereas the alpha test of Pine were always non-public.

Functions

Alpine shares many common features with console applications, such as a large number of keyboard shortcuts to the entire navigation and operation using the keyboard instead of the mouse do, can. In fact, all operations in Alpine have a keyboard shortcut.

Unlike other console applications for developers and advanced users who require the editing of the configuration file frequently represents Alpine most of the configuration options in the software. This makes Alpine under the console-based e -mail programs to one of the most easily learnable.

Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP and LDAP natively. Although it does not support HTML in e- mails, e-mails that contain only HTML are displayed as text.

Future

On 4 August 2008, the Alpine team from the University of Washington has announced that want to move an advisory and coordinating role for another release, the Web Alpine 2.0, it " their efforts from direct development in the order of integration of contributions from the community to help. "

Re - alpine

A current continuation is re - alpine. On August 20, 2011 have been re - alpine the basis for further development of the alpine package in Debian GNU / Linux.

Alpine 2:10

On January 16, 2013, the long-time employees at Alpine Project, Eduardo Chappa, the version 2.10 of Alpine has released. The announcement of this release took place in the newsgroup comp.mail.pine Usenet. Meanwhile, version 2.11 is available.