Alpine ("Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email") is a display-oriented email client for the terminal. It is gentle enough for newcomers yet powerful for demanding users, and it includes its own editor.

Background

• Successor to Pine, developed at the University of Washington until 2008
• Continued by the re-alpine group, and since 2013 maintained by Eduardo Chappa
• Improved support for UTF-8 text

Alpine is released under the Apache License 2.0, and packages are available in many Linux distributions. Source releases are distributed from the project website.