Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email" produced by the University of Washington. It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (Netnews) messages. Alpine is designed to run on a wide variety of Unix® operating systems. A version for Microsoft Windows® is available as is a world wide web based version designed to run under the Apache web server.

See Paul Heinlein's shell script to compile Alpine at http://www.madboa.com/geek/pine-macosx/#compiling-alpine.

Edit version number to VER="alpine-2.00".

Mac OS X Universal Binaries are available for the previous version, 1.10 at http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/. Expect 2.00 binaries soon.