Welcome! The purpose of this page is to offer a collection of patches for alpha releases of the mail and news program Alpine, in order to add new or missing features or fix small bugs. Usual disclaimers about suitability for any purpose or any express guarantee apply. This means that you have to use these patches at your own risk. Having said that, I use and actively support most of the patches in this web page, see below.

Alpha releases of alpine are available for a worldwide audience. You can subscribe to the alpine alpha mailing list to receive announcements of new releases, or request new features, or report bugs.

Additionally, access to the latest snapshot is available by running the command

svn checkout https://svn.cac.washington.edu/public/alpine/snapshots/

In case you don't know what a patch is, or why you would care about one, read my FAQ on patches.

This page has had hits since 10/12/99. Last updated 18:55:25 PDT Thu Apr 10 2008.

Now we have made available updates of this web site via XML/RSS feeds at http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/alpha/alpine.xml.

All patches for Alpine in this page are for version 0.999999, but most of them are available for older versions also (click on each link below to find out if the patch that you are interested in is available for an older version of Alpine). Also, there are many patches that are only available for older versions of Alpine. The full list of old patches includes new features, bug/security fixes and contributed patches, is a forever growing list.

The following is a list of available patches. Click on a link in order to read the explanation of what the patch does and to download it.

• Most Popular Patches
  • Windows Version of Alpine (more...)
  • Maildir patch for Alpine (more...)
  • Enhanced Fancy Thread Interface (more...)
  • Cygwin Version of Alpine (more...)
  • Reflow, paint different quote levels and remove quoted text in Alpine. Justify or delete paragraphs in Pico (more...)
  • Use Alpine to send e-mail from the command line (more...)
  • Define your own rules and make Alpine flexible! (more...)
  • Write accents in Alpine (more...)
• New Features
  • Configure ignoring change in size of a message (more...)
  • Get the number of characters in a composed message (more...)
  • Send help links through e-mail (more...)
  • Get the quota report from an IMAP server (more...)
  • Select messages by the content of an arbitrary header (more...)
  • Paint special text in the body of the message in any custom color (more...)
  • Choose a role when composing a message from a mailto: link (more...)
  • Change your From Header without any effort! (more...)
  • New Menu for the Reply Command (more...)
  • Tab checks for new mail in cycles (more...)
  • Update the status line information (more...)
  • Reinsert the pattern in search (more...)
  • Delete Until the end of file (more...)
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix a bug that makes Alpine not to give a warning if the Newsgroup header is present (more...)
• All of the above :) (more...)