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Alpine is an easy (and fast) to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users. Alpine is based on the Pine Message System, which was also developed at the University of Washington. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help. The user experience is highly customizable through the use of the Alpine Setup command.
Alpine is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. All of the source needed to build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents is included. Alpine was developed by the department of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington.
Installation:
The Alpine build process is based on GNU autotools. On most Unix
systems, generating a suitable Alpine binary from the source
distribution should be as simple as typing the commands:
./configure
make
For a list of configuration options and default Alpine settings type:
./configure --help
Note, the included UW IMAP Toolkit used for mailbox access does not
make use of GNU autotools. However, in most cases Alpine's configure
script should set the appropriate make target and options. The
targetted OS can be set from Alpine's configure command line, but in
rare cases more significant manual intervention may be required. If
problems are encountered, see imap/README for more details.
The PC-Alpine build is based on the Microsoft C compiler and
libraries. The Alpine Team bases builds on Visual Studio 8 from the
command line using the static build.bat batch and makefiles to
generate suitable binaries.
The Web Alpine application requires a few extra, manual steps to get
all the components built and installed. See web/README for an
explanation of the various components and web/INSTALL for a basic
installation recipe.
The executable files produced are:
alpine The Alpine mailer. Once compiled this should work just fine on
your system with no other files than this binary, and no
modifications to your system. Optionally you may create two
configuration files, /usr/local/lib/pine.conf and
/usr/local/lib/pine.info. See the documentation for details.
pico The standalone editor similar to the Alpine message composer.
This is a very simple straight forward text editor.
pilot The standalone file system navigator.
alpined
The Web Alpine serveret that is the primary component of
Web Alpine
imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server
mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
See doc/tech-notes for more details.
mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
for debugging.
rpload Utility for uploading a local pinerc or address book to an IMAP
server.
rpdump Utility for downloading a pinerc or address book to the
local machine.
mailutil
Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
be they local or remote.
What's New in This Release:
· The Pine source code has been reorganized and a Web client added.
· The project name and copying conditions have been changed to make it free software.
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| Date Added | 22nd January, 2008 |
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