It would appear that on Jan 15, Ralf Madorf did say:
I don't understand why that much people are using MUAs without a GUI, anyway, a penfriend is blind, reading braille, a good reason to use a GUI free MUA.
And a good reason to support email standards that are still friendly to plain-text clients... My original reason for liking alpine had to do with having gotten used to pine with a Unix login I had with a former employer... That plus NOT having good mouse manipulation skills (I feel a little like a 3yr old trying to color within the lines...) Along with NOT wanting my email client to automatically fetching content from the web (If I decide I "want" to actually view some stinking HTML mail the way the sender want's me to I can choose to pipe it through Firefox...) And then there have been a few times when I've managed to break something X needs, and having access to all my email resources from the console was then a wonderful thing.
An Email I received yesterday was written with User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Debian testing and unstable are at 2.02-3 too. I don't think that Alpin will be dropped by major distros.
I'm happy to agree. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp@ttlc.net>>