Pine is the University of Washington's Program for Internet News and Email. In
2006, UW ceased development on Pine and started development on a successor
christened with the name of Alpine -- in reality, Alpine being Pine v5.0 but
now under an Apache license.
There are both Unix and Windows versions of Alpine. The Unix version is text
user interface based -- its message editor inspired the text editor Pico. The
Windows (and formerly DOS) version is called PC-Pine.
The Unix version runs very well on the Nokia Internet Tablet N800. With
mouse-support enabled it can be be driven very nicely by point-and-click. With
support from UW Alpine Development team, the current Alpine source now compiles
cleanly on Scratchbox. A binary-only distribution can be downloaded from here.
http://home.mminternet.com/~delaroca/
If you are handy with an xterm, then configuring Alpine on the N800 is
relatively straighforward. In return for the effort, one is rewarded with a
no-nonsense E-mail client, fast, rich in features and fully standards
compliant... Mark Crispin who invented IMAP twenty years ago is part of the UW
Alpine Development team and is now running Alpine on his very own N800!
The current Alpine release, v0.99999, is a pre-release... but don't worry, as
pre-releases go this is quite solid and many people use and depend on it for
their daily E-mail processing. It shouldn't be long before the public v1.0
release. With the new Apache license, the open source community is welcome to
get involved. For now, and if interested please join the Alpine Discussion
list, details here:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine
The Usenet News group comp.mail.pine features coverage of Pine / Alpine
issues as well. Alpine, by the way is also a capable Usenet News Reader.
Enjoy,
-- Denis
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