Re: [MLUG] Alpine's Like Pine: It's Not Elm

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mike Miller wrote:

> I finally got Alpine...
>
> http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
>
> ...installed on my Solaris box.  That is only because I found a package 
> version of it -- Alpine wouldn't compile on my system.  The package 
> doesn't have LDAP support, it seems.

They added a package for Alpine 1.10 with LDAP support when I requested 
it.  Nice service!  They are here:  http://www.sunfreeware.com/


> Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else has been using Alpine and if you've 
> had an good/bad experiences worth recounting.
>
> It isn't easy to tell that it is a different program from Pine.  They 
> are very closely similar.


Several things so far:

Advantages of Alpine

(1) date listing in the index shows "time only" for today's messages, 
"day-of-the-week only" for messages within the past week, "Month dd" for 
messages within the past year and mm/dd/yy for messages older than one 
year.  I like it.

(2) Ctrl-c cancels URL viewer (you used to have to say 'no')

(3) Ctrl-x y sends a message, and Ctrl-c y used to cancel a message.  It 
was too easy to cancel when you intended to send so now Ctrl-c c is used 
to cancel.


Disadvantages of Alpine

For some reason it is very slow on some operations, specifically when 
saving messages to a folder.

It hanged and had to be killed when I tried to pipe a message through grep 
(or through anything else).  That's a serious bug.

It has a bunch more bugs.


I guess I'll mostly use Alpine instead of Pine because Alpine is open 
source.  That way I can contribute bug reports and help the project.

Mike

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