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[Karl F. Larsen]

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Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Res wrote:
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>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>  I was recalled that years ago I used "pine" as my email client. I
>>> tried $ sudo aptitude install pine, but it is not available from the
>>> Ubuntu sources. Do you need to to get the tar-ball and compile pine?
>> Karl,  "alpine" is the replacement they ceased developing pine under its
>> old licence I think, and moved the codebase to alpine.
>> If you cant find it goto ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine
> 
> I too have been using Pine/Alpine for years. Be aware that development 
> of Alpine has been abandoned by UW and the devel team has been "let go". 
> Any further work on it is by volunteers and seems to be in the form of 
> patches. This requires frequent recompiling (I think). See:
> 
> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/
> 
> As a result with great reluctance I'm getting Mutt configured. That's a 
> bucket of worms compared to Pine/Alpine. At least Mutt has support for 
> encryption.
> 

	Why not Thunderbird? It supports encryption.


73 Karl



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