I'm not entirely sure, but sdf.org might offer a free alpine client through their ssh shell account.

From powershell I can ssh to my account and hitting "alpine" certainly brings up an e-mail client. Questions:

1.) is this alpine e-mail?
2.) if it's not alpine, what is the client?
3.) how would that be determined?

I'd like to import my own .pinerc file because I can't seem to install alpine on this surface tablet (which is a different topic). If sdf doesn't offer alpine access, are there other free servers? I could just use an amazon or other VPS, but seems
overkill just for e-mail.


-Nick

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Nicholas Saunders <saunders.nicholas@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not entirely sure, but sdf.org might offer a free alpine client
through their ssh shell account.

From powershell I can ssh to my account and hitting "alpine" certainly
brings up an e-mail client. Questions:

1.) is this alpine e-mail?
2.) if it's not alpine, what is the client?
3.) how would that be determined?

Does the output of "alpine -v" report that it's an alpine mail client?

I'd like to import my own .pinerc file because I can't seem to install
alpine on this surface tablet (which is a different topic). If sdf
doesn't offer alpine access, are there other free servers? I could just
use an amazon or other VPS, but seems overkill just for e-mail.

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On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 06:49:49 UTC-7, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Nicholas Saunders <saunders...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not entirely sure, but sdf.org might offer a free alpine client
through their ssh shell account.

From powershell I can ssh to my account and hitting "alpine" certainly >brings up an e-mail client. Questions:

1.) is this alpine e-mail?
2.) if it's not alpine, what is the client?
3.) how would that be determined?

Does the output of "alpine -v" report that it's an alpine mail client?

I'd like to import my own .pinerc file because I can't seem to install >alpine on this surface tablet (which is a different topic). If sdf
doesn't offer alpine access, are there other free servers? I could just
use an amazon or other VPS, but seems overkill just for e-mail.

the way sdf works is by a nominal validation of one dollar, or three from paypal, so I'll probably just do that. A three dollar membership gives, I think, sufficient privileges. If it doesn't, c'est la vie.

They're using mutt. There's no alias, but alpine seems to map to mutt.

A full sdf membership is I think $36, but typing "software arpa" to get a list doesn't show either pine or alpine.

I'll keep looking, probably there's some similar shell service that would work for that purpose.


-Nick

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

I'm not entirely sure, but sdf.org might offer a free alpine client through their ssh shell account.

From powershell I can ssh to my account and hitting "alpine" certainly brings up an e-mail client. Questions:

1.) is this alpine e-mail?
2.) if it's not alpine, what is the client?
3.) how would that be determined?

I'd like to import my own .pinerc file because I can't seem to install
alpine on this surface tablet (which is a different topic). If sdf
doesn't offer alpine access, are there other free servers? I could just
use an amazon or other VPS, but seems overkill just for e-mail.

Dear Nick,

according to

https://sdf.org/?software

both Alpine and neomutt (but not mutt) are part of the software in
sdf.org. I do not have an account with them, so I cannot check this,

Thank you.

--
Eduardo
https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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Nicholas Saunders <saunders.nicholas@gmail.com> wrote:

. . .

They're using mutt. There's no alias, but alpine seems to map to mutt.

Well, that's rotten. I understand that they don't have the alpine client installed but they shouldn't map the well-known name of one client to
another.

. . .

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On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 06:49:49 UTC-7, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Nicholas Saunders <saunders...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not entirely sure, but sdf.org might offer a free alpine
client through their ssh shell account.

From powershell I can ssh to my account and hitting "alpine"
certainly brings up an e-mail client. Questions:

1.) is this alpine e-mail?
2.) if it's not alpine, what is the client?
3.) how would that be determined?

Does the output of "alpine -v" report that it's an alpine mail client?

SDF-EU (sdfeu.org) has alpine, and this is what the above command reports:

Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) built Sun Dec 23 23:05:06 UTC 2018 on odin

I'd like to import my own .pinerc file because I can't seem to
install alpine on this surface tablet (which is a different topic).
If sdf doesn't offer alpine access, are there other free servers?
I could just use an amazon or other VPS, but seems overkill just for e-mail.

the way sdf works is by a nominal validation of one dollar, or three from paypal, so I'll probably just do that. A three dollar membership gives, I think, sufficient privileges. If it doesn't, c'est la vie.

They're using mutt. There's no alias, but alpine seems to map to mutt.

A full sdf membership is I think $36, but typing "software arpa" to get a list doesn't show either pine or alpine.

I'll keep looking, probably there's some similar shell service that would work for that purpose.

-Nick

Software on SDF may differ from SDF-EU; membership system should be the same.

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