Pine (email client)

Pine
Developer(s)University of Washington
Initial releaseMarch 24, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-03-24)
Final release
4.64[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 28 September 2005
Operating systemWindows, Unix, Linux
SuccessorAlpine
TypeEmail client
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.washington.edu/pine/ at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 March 2019)

Pine is a freeware, text-based email client which was developed at the University of Washington. The first version was written in 1989,[2] and announced to the public in March 1992.[3] Source code was available for only the Unix version under a license written by the University of Washington. Pine is no longer under development, and has been replaced by the Alpine client, which is available under the Apache License.

  1. ^ "Pine Information Center--Pine Release Chronology & Version Changes". Archived from the original on 25 November 2005.
  2. ^ "Pine Project History". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  3. ^ University of Washington (24 March 1992). "Announcing the Pine Mailer". Newsgroupcomp.mail.misc (published 26 March 1992). Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 25 November 2014.