alpine

Open alpine email client

$ alpine

$ alpine [email@example.net]

$ q y

alpine [options] [address]

alpine is an email client and Usenet newsgroup program with a pico/nano-inspired interface. It supports most modern email services through IMAP and is designed for ease of use with a menu-driven interface.
Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by the University of Washington.

address

Open directly to message composition screen to send to specified address

Start in the INBOX folder

Open a specific folder

Set folder collection context

Enable debugging output

Use alternate configuration file

~/.pinerc

Main configuration file for Alpine. Stores mail server settings, folder paths, display preferences, and feature flags.

Configuration is stored in ~/.pinerc by default. Alpine may require additional setup for OAuth2 authentication with modern email providers like Gmail.

Alpine was developed by the University of Washington as a successor to Pine (Program for Internet News & Email). First released in 2007, it was designed to address licensing concerns with Pine.

mutt(1), mail(1), pico(1), nano(1)