On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Pierre Labastie wrote:
On 28/11/2017 16:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The alpine package does not seem to be maintained any more.
As pointed out before - it still is.
The url we are using says: "Website is temporary sleeping" and they want
the owner to upgrade to a commercial account.
Now it even says "Website is no longer available. The authors have deleted
this site". BUT: The maintainer commented on that 6 days ago on
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mail.pine/FxWD5iqciB8 :
"Aargh. This is the second time I see this. This is the way my 'free'
provider pushes me to upgrade to pay for their service. Just ignore it.
They have the wrong business model. If they continue, I will move again.
That's the worst that could happen.
Thank you."
I've found nothing about discontinuing alpine.
On the contrary, developement seems rather active (9 commits this month),
see http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
Anyway, I guess with mutt and heirloom mailx, we are already offering 2 text
mail clients. Mailx is light and simple, mutt is more complicated (but more
powerful too). Do we need an intermediate one?
+1 for removing.
[[re-]al]pine is my primary mail client for about 20 years now. There is
some reason to use others occasionally (like mutt for more better
encryption handling or if forced to work in other environments), but for
me, alpine overall usability is still unmatched. Therefore:
-1 for removing.
Uwe
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