About Alpine Email Client
A tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages built upon the venerable Pine Message System. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of “power users” as well.

Alpine’s message composition editor (Pico) and its file browser (Pilot) are also included as separate stand-alone programs. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker.

Alpine Features:
- Online help specific to each screen and context.
- Message index showing a message summary which includes the status, sender, size, date and subject of messages.
- Commands to view and process messages: Forward, Reply, Save, Export, Print, Delete, capture address, and search.
- Message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker. The message composer also assists entering and formatting addresses and provides direct access to the address book.
- Address book for saving long complex addresses and personal distribution lists under a nickname.
- Message attachments via the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) specification. MIME allows sending/receiving non-text objects, such as binary files, spreadsheets, graphics, and sound.
- Folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing, or renaming message folders. Folders may be local or on remote hosts.
- Access to remote message folders and archives via the Internet Message Access Protocol version 4.1 (IMAP) as defined in RFC-2060.
- Internet news support via either NNTP or IMAP.
- Aggregate operations, e.g. saving a selected set of messages at once.

What’s New in this Version
- Finder Clickable versions of Alpine, Pico, and Pilot