Alpine (Email Client)

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Alpine is a free software email client developed at the University of Washington.

Alpine 1.0 was publicly released on December 20, 2007.

The name "Alpine" stands for Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email.

Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that adds support for Unicode and other features.

Alpine is meant to be suitable for both inexperienced email users and the most demanding of power users.

Alpine is developed at the University of Washington, as was Pine before it.

Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help.

The user interface can be customized.