I've been using Pine from the University of Washington as my email client for a long time. Pine is an acronym for Program for Internet News & Email. But Pine is no longer under development. The University of Washington has developed a successor package, Alpine, which it has released under the Apache License. When I set up a CentOS 5.1 system, I decided to install Alpine on it.
Alpine is available through RPMForge,
a repository for Linux packages in the RPM format. To install
Alpine, I downloaded the rpmforge-release package from
RPMforge/Using and
then installed it with rpm.
# rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
That placed two new files, mirrors-rpmforge and
rpmforge.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d. I installed
the yum-priorities plugin as described in
RPMForge Packages and Yum Priorites and set the RPMForge
repository to a lower priority than the default CentOS repository.
I installed Alpine with yum install alpine.
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Alpine E-Mail Client Released -- Don't Call it a Comeback
By Michael Calore
December 21, 2007
Wired Blogs -
Alpine Messaging System
University of Washington - RPMForge
