Many a year ago I decided it was worth sacrifising something in the name of freedom and switched from the frustratingly not quite free Pine e-mail app to Mutt. Mutt is free but has the most insane keybindings and is generally not as slick a user interface as Pine. Plus it doesn't have the nice feature of keeping your main inbox open while you look at other e-mail boxes, and if your inbox is as large as mine that means a bunch of time lost just for reading a mailing list. So it was a lovely surprise to see Alpine, a free Pine from the original authors at Washington University. So back to integrated editor, sensible keybindings and being able to read mailing lists without spending 10 minutes opening my inbox again. Yay freedom.
Pine Goes Free with Alpine
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Alpine is GREAT!
I too have recently discovered Alpine - I used Pine at my University for my student account, and I fell in love with the interface, and I was overjoyed when I heard of Alpine, like you, I struggled with Mutt for several years, and I still never stopped getting frustrated with it!
Washington University vs. University of Washington
Pine and Alpine are products of University of Washington, not Washington University. Or, as the T-shirts sold in the Wash U bookstore say: "Washington University is in St. Louis, dammit!"
- Anonymous Wash U student