Alpine Alpine is a fast, easy to use text-based email client. It is the successor to Pine (which is encumbered by trademark and license restrictions and has been unmaintained since 2006); it is being developed by the same team at UW, and is upwards-compatible. It also includes new features, such as correct handling of multiple character sets. Alpine additionally comes with a simple text editor, pico, and a simple file system browser, pilot. In order to use these programs instead of the ones provided with Athena Pine, or to use Alpine as the `pine` command, run add -f alpine. This installation includes patches ported from Athena Pine to integrate it with the obsolete Kerberos IV authentication required by MIT’s PO servers. Alpine will use the system pine.conf and your existing ~/.pinerc file (it should not disturb your Pine configuration if you switch back and forth, but make backups if you are worried). We would appreciate hearing about any issues at .