#2530 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Replace pine with alpine
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | x-future |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Right now, BLFS includes Pine plus a big patch that is questionable from a legal viewpoint (because distribution of modified Pine versions is prohibited), but required in order to have a functional Pine in UTF-8 based system. Alpine (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/) is a fork of the last Pine version that didn't have the offending clause in the license, and incorporates this patch and many others. I recommend switching. The page (http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/FAQ.html) where we got this patch from now says it is deprecated in favor of Alpine.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
Me too. And pine is probably no longer maintained. If Linus says nothin' but good things about alpine, it's good.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
NB - development of alpine stopped, but was forked to re-alpinehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/files/ - current version 2.02
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
| Type: | defect → enhancement |
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Changed some tickets from a defect to an enhancement
comment:6 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Marking as duplicate to #3312 because that ticket has the build instructions.
+1
I used it briefly in the pre-1.0 days before convincing myself to try mutt again, and it seemed fine. FWIW, I recall reading an interview with Linus Torvalds where he said alpine was his main mail client, and he had nothing but good things to say about it.