From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alpine (email client)
Alpine (email client)
Alpine
Features
Alpine shares many common features of console appli-
cations, like a rich set of shortcut keys, using keyboard
instead of mouse to do all navigation and operation. In
fact, all operations in Alpine have corresponding short-
cut keys.
Unlike other console applications targeting develop-
ers and experienced users, which often require users to
Main menu of Alpine 2.00. edit a configuration file, Alpine lets users change most
configuration options within the software. This makes
Developer(s) University of Washington alpine one of the most easy to learn console-based email
Initial release December 20, 2007 (2007-12-20) clients.
Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP and LDAP protocol
Stable release 2.02 (October 2, 2010 (2010-10-02))
natively. Although it does not support composing HTML
Development status Standstill email, it can display emails that only have HTML content
as text.
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Future
Available in English
On 4 August 2008 the University of Washington Alpine
Type Email client team announced[3] that after one more release, incor-
License Apache License porating Web Alpine 2.0, they would "shift [their] effort
from direct development into more of a consultation and
Website www.washington.edu/alpine coordination role to help integrate contributions from
the community." This is likely to be interpreted that the
Alpine is a free software email client developed at the UW team no longer maintains Alpine,[4] and is leaving
University of Washington. development to others. One current continuation is re-
Alpine 1.0 was publicly released on December 20, alpine.[5]
2007.
The name "Alpine" stands for Alternatively Licensed
Program for Internet News and Email. See also
Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that • Comparison of email clients
adds support for Unicode and other features. Alpine is
meant to be suitable for both inexperienced email users
and the most demanding of power users. Alpine is devel- References
oped at the University of Washington, as was Pine be- [1] "Announce of Alpine 0.8".
fore it. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use http://permalink.gmane.org/
of context-sensitive help. The user interface can be cus- gmane.mail.pine.general/3602. Retrieved
tomized. 2006-12-14.
[2] "Alpine FTP download directory".
Licensing ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/. Retrieved
2006-12-19.
Alpine is licensed under the Apache License, version 2. [3] "Alpine status".
November 29, 2006 saw the first public alpha release,[1][2] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/
which forms a new approach since the alpha test of Pine alpine-info/2008-August/001071.html. Retrieved
was always non-public. 2008-08-04.
[4] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/
alpine-info/2009-August/002439.html
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alpine (email client)
[5] re-alpine: the continuation of the Alpine email
client from University of Washington
External links
• Official website
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Categories:
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• Free email software
• Linux email clients
• Mac OS X email clients
• Windows email clients
• Unix internet software
• Portable software
• Console application
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