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# Copyright 2006 University of Washington
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<TITLE>Alpine Release Information</TITLE>
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Alpine Release Highlights
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This page is used to publish the highlights of periodic updates. Bug fixes, explanations
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for new features and so forth can typically be found here.
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<H2>December 2007:</H2>
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<DT>Web Alpine General Release</DT>
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This is the first release to the general public of the Web Alpine IMAP
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client. It's built on the Alpine Mail System which itself is derived
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from the Pine Mail System. Externally, besides numerous new features,
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the most significant change is likely the new licensing. The Alpine Mail System
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has been release under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Internally, there are significant changes. The code has been
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restructured to partition mail data access routines from those
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functions that provide the user interface. This allows development on
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the mail engine proper to be easily reflected across the supported
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interfaces. Similarly, each interface, Unix, Windows, and Web, can be
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developed reasponably independently.
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Similarly, significant work has been done to make Alpine more
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international. Internally, message text and so forth is represented in
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Unicode, and the groundwork has been laid to support status and
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As for the Web Alpine IMAP client, it is an updated, evolutionary
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improvement upon the Pine-based version that has been serving tens of
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thousands of users daily on the University of Washington campus for
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several years. It is not quite as fully featured as the other Alpine
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mail tools, but is a reasonably solid and complete IMAP client. We
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also tend to agree with many of its critics that it is a somewhat homely
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interface, and we are taking significant steps toward addressing that
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criticism. Stay tuned!