List:       pine-announce
Subject:    [Pine-announce] Alpine 1.00 now available
From:       Jeff Franklin <jpf () cac ! washington ! edu>
Date:       2007-12-21 1:57:08
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.1.00.0712201749490.2681 () d-128-95-135-153 ! dhcp4 ! washington ! edu
[Download RAW message or body]

The University of Washington is pleased to announce the release of Version 
1.00 of the Alpine Messaging System. On the surface, Alpine will appear 
strikingly similar to the Pine Message System, and it is 
upwards-compatible for existing Pine users.

You received this message because you are subscribed to the pine-announce 
mailing list. Since development of Pine has stopped, this should be the 
final message sent to pine-announce. There is a list called 
alpine-announce that serves the same purpose for Alpine. To subscribe, go 
to

    https://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-announce

Alpine is a fast, easy to use client that is suitable for both the 
inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users. 
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. The source code 
has been reorganized from the ground up to separate the user interface 
code from the underlying email engine itself. All of the source needed to 
build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents is included.

Besides the UNIX shell program, Alpine, and a Windows version called 
PC-Alpine; there is a new Web-based version of Alpine that is built on TCL 
and is designed to run under a suitable CGI-supporting web server such as 
Apache.

Additionally, Alpine's build and installation are now based on GNU 
autotools.  For most Unix systems, building should be as easy as typing 
"./configure" followed by "make".  See the included README for more 
information on build options, building PC-Alpine and installing Web 
Alpine.

Another fundamental improvement is Alpine's internal text handling, which 
is now based exclusively on Unicode. This allows displaying incoming 
messages and producing outgoing messages in many different languages. 
Alpine has been designed to work correctly with left-to-right character 
sets using a fixed-width font. (A first-pass at preparing the source for 
localization [where messages from the program are in the user's native 
language] has also been completed, but no translations are available.)

While the source code was being rewritten and reorganized security was 
considered an important goal. Potential buffer overflows have been 
eliminated and it should be far easier for someone to audit the source 
code themselves for security problems.

To give Alpine a try, go to

    http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Thanks and enjoy!

The Alpine Messaging System Team
_______________________________________________
Pine-announce mailing list
Pine-announce@u.washington.edu
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-announce