Alpine Alpine is an easy (and fast) to use email client.
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Alpine is an easy (and fast) to use email client. 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 Unixsystems, generating a suitable Alpine binary from the sourcedistribution should be as simple as typing the commands: ./configure makeFor a list of configuration options and default Alpine settings type: ./configure --helpNote, the included UW IMAP Toolkit used for mailbox access does notmake use of GNU autotools. However, in most cases Alpine's configurescript should set the appropriate make target and options. Thetargetted OS can be set from Alpine's configure command line, but inrare cases more significant manual intervention may be required. Ifproblems are encountered, see imap/README for more details.The PC-Alpine build is based on the Microsoft C compiler andlibraries. The Alpine Team bases builds on Visual Studio 8 from thecommand line using the static build.bat batch and makefiles togenerate suitable binaries.The Web Alpine application requires a few extra, manual steps to getall the components built and installed. See web/README for anexplanation of the various components and web/INSTALL for a basicinstallation 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.

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