Friday September 21, 2007 Random ramblings
Friday September 21, 2007 PINE is dead, long live Alpine
I'm a long-time user of the best MUA out there, PINE. It has some problems though, firstly it is not free software (you may not distribute modified versions) and secondly it doesn't support UTF-8. A while ago WU started work on a free rewrite of PINE, called Alpine. Alpine is now at v0.9999. I've been using it for a few weeks now and does it indeed seem to be quite complete and perfectly useable (there's only regression from PINE I've noticed, roles only let you set one address in Reply-To).
Finally we have the very powerful but user-friendly, terminal-based PINE MUA, under a friendlier licence 
. I wonder if I can get this included into SFW..
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alpine is not a rewrite, it is mostly the same code with a license change (and significant improvements, but not a rewrite).
It now supports utf-8, but sadly it stopped supporting latin-1 on solaris (because it is called iso8859-1 and not iso-8859-1). :-(
By the way, did you report your regression on the alpine mailing-list? They are looking for any regression before the 1.0 release.
Yes, it would really be great to get it integrated into SFW (or any other part of solaris).
Posted by Marc on September 23, 2007 at 06:30 PM IST #