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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

Alpine 1.0 - Try the Email Program on Which Linus Torvalds Relies

Tuesday May 6, 2008
Alpine - Free Email Program
The Alps: majestic mountains bearing a name older than the languages spoken today. Conveniently for blog post etymology, Latin altus means "high", though, and albus is "white". — White and high like Mount Rainier in Alpine Messaging System's logo.
ALPINE, in turn, can also be read as "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email" and is, essentially, Pine with full Unicode support under a more liberal license:
›› Alpine is powerful console email program that makes you use email productively with automation aplenty and nary a distraction. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

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