[arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 01:19 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> And I note that as a multi-boot/multi-Linux-distribution user That the
> "alpine" packages found in at least some of the distro's repositories
> appears to be compiled from re-alpine sources since If I understand it
> right, the last official Uwash alpine version was 2.00 yet for example:
> 
> ~ 
> UnderTree =-> pacman -Ss alpine
> extra/re-alpine 2.02-3 [installed]
>     The continuation of the Alpine email client from University of Washington
> ~ 
> UnderTree =-> 
> 
> Since I tend to stick with package manager installed software, I can't tell
> you how pleased I was when I 1st noticed that some pacman -Syu had upgraded my
> Arch installation's alpine beyond version 2.00...  ;-)

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. 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.

- Ralf