[mdlug] [WLUG] Future of Alpine/UW-imapd

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
> I just heard about this today:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.imap/browse_thread/thread/7187f4d1f4478184/a0c4c96c4d365eb0?lnk=gst&q=thanks+fish#
>
> The Univ. of Washington laid off most of the Alpine development staff
> back in May. It's not clear what will happen to Alpine or UW-imapd.
> I'll keep using Alpine as my mail client no matter what, but as a
> long-time Pine/Alpine user, it's sad to hear what happened.

I use Gmail and don't have much use for offline clients.  Web email is
much more convenient as I can access it from anywhere with any PC.  I
don't live through email so I'm not inconvenienced much when I don't
have Internet access but with free WiFi hotspots (and insecure home
networks) it's rare that I can't get it.  I suspect a lot of clients
will be abandoned in the future:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients

I remember when Pegasus was all the rage back in the early Netware days.