Alpine prospects??

[Mike]

>From a long time pine/alpine user this is horrible news!  I have yet to 
find a suitable replacement.  Cone comes close but no cigar for me...

The only discussion I was able to find is here:
http://objectmix.com/imap/397119-so-long-thanks-all-fish.html

-- Mike

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> On Friday, Aug 1st 2008 at 16:13 -0000, quoth Beartooth:
>
> =>
> =>	As many here must know, U Washington laid off some large number
> =>of the Pine/Alpine team last May. Now there is talk, in some places
> =>online, of UW dropping all support for this superb software.
> =>
> =>	Given those opprobrious facts, it seems a legitimate topic for
> =>this group to ask, "What of Alpine, then?"
>
> As a user of alpine, a few questions pop up:
>
> 1. Where did you hear about this layoff? Is it being discussed anywhere?
> 2. I did not know that alpine was a funded project by paid employees, as
> opposed to something that is developed by volunteers. If so, what was UW's
> motivation to have paid for this?
> 3. What other mailers out there are viable stable replacement candidates
> for what alpine offers. The features that are at the top of my list are:
> 	* The ability to bounce mail.
> 	* Roles
> 	* Instant editing of headers
> 	* The ability to pipe mail.
> 	* Selecting and zooming.
>   If anything else out there supports these features then I'm all ears.
> The text-based/gui-based part is less important.
>
> And of course, if anyone wanted to pick alpine up themselves, that would
> probably be nice too. :-)
>
>