On 11/10/07, Denis DeLaRoca <delaroca at mminternet.com> wrote: > > Pine is the University of Washington's Program for Internet News and Email. In > 2006, UW ceased development on Pine and started development on a successor > christened with the name of Alpine -- in reality, Alpine being Pine v5.0 but > now under an Apache license. > > There are both Unix and Windows versions of Alpine. The Unix version is text > user interface based -- its message editor inspired the text editor Pico. The > Windows (and formerly DOS) version is called PC-Pine. > > The Unix version runs very well on the Nokia Internet Tablet N800. With > mouse-support enabled it can be be driven very nicely by point-and-click. With > support from UW Alpine Development team, the current Alpine source now compiles > cleanly on Scratchbox. A binary-only distribution can be downloaded from here. > > http://home.mminternet.com/~delaroca/ > > If you are handy with an xterm, then configuring Alpine on the N800 is > relatively straighforward. In return for the effort, one is rewarded with a > no-nonsense E-mail client, fast, rich in features and fully standards > compliant... Mark Crispin who invented IMAP twenty years ago is part of the UW > Alpine Development team and is now running Alpine on his very own N800! > Hi, I use alpine on (big) Linux machines and wondered if anyone was interested in using it on a 770 since I'm a big fan of pine on the 770 (having used pine for years)? Thanks A Thew
