Earlier this year I had asked administration over at panix.com to replace alpine with re-alpine since re-alpine had later ongoing support than alpine. Administration investigated and decided to not install re-alpine since re-alpine according to them lost its support as of 2012. So for those that want to be using a mail package with ongoing support in order to benefit from security fixes and new features in future versions, the pine tree and its descendants died off two years ago. Mutt has its following, but another package anyone searching for a live one ought to look at is nmh. The whole operating philosophy behind nmh radically differs from pine and mutt though but won't pose any problems for the dedicated command line users in the linux community. One security advantage to nmh is no.mbox files, every message is stored in its own file. earlier if you found a virus on an .mbox file, the virus program (clamav in my case) couldn't tell me which message number had the virus and didn't want to allow me to access that .mbox file either. That's a good way to loose lots of email quickly. With nmh, each individual message can be checked by any anti-malware program and deleting certain infected messages does not loose you your whole email content. Due to changing support status on software these days it's wise to understand learning curves will be ahead as old favorites come to end of support life cycles. jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list