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Alpine News and Mail client

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From: ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org>
Cc: 26320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26320: Alpine News and Mail client
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 14:34:47 +0000

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Kei Kebreau transcribed 1.5K bytes:
> ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net> writes:
> 
> > Kei Kebreau transcribed 7.4K bytes:
> >> ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Maybe this can be a bit more descriptive, but then again, the mutt mail
> >> client has a fairly modest description as well.
> >
> > I don't know. It's a text bsaed email and news client. It features its
> > own text editor (so it says) called pico. That's all I know. I don't
> > know wether the editor can be used on its own or just in application.
> >
> >
> 
> It can! Users can run "pico", GNU nano's predecessor, as a standalone
> program with this package installed.

quote README:

  In general "make install" should place alpine, pico and pilot, and
  their corresponding man pages, in the proper directory for your
  system.  As the remaining binaries are intended for specific uses or
  are a component of a larger package, their installation is typically
  done by hand.
endquote README

Include are not:

quote
 alpined
        The Web Alpine serveret that is the primary component of 
        Web Alpine 
 
 imapd  The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server
        mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
        requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
        See doc/tech-notes for more details.
 
 mtest  The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
        for debugging.
 mailutil 
        Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
        be they local or remote.
endquote

But in addition to the above listed included applications, "rpload" and
"rpdump" are included.

This is taken from the section "RESULTING EXECUTABLE".

Whoever wants to include more than the standard set of make install
needs to be a alpine user, I can't judge what's necessary, important,
too much, or whatever.

I have addressed the datestamp issue, but I needed to fix this in
#:phases, as a snippet did not accept what I ran, files weren't being
found.

[0001-gnu-Add-alpine.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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