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This page contains links to information on patches that have been integrated into Alpine. The list of patches for the last release of Alpine is always in our main page.

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

  • Old Patches
    • (Added to 2.25) Delete incorrect passwords (more...)
    • (Added to 2.22.1) Choose a role when composing a message from a mailto: link (more...)
    • (Added to 2.21) New Menu for the Reply Command (more...)
    • (Added to 2.21) Configure ignoring change in size of a message (more...)
    • (Added to 2.21) Use special characters to specify a range of messages (more...)
    • (Added to 2.20) Use the search command to search backward in Pico (more...)
    • (Added to 2.11) Make Alpine preserve To: and Cc: fields (more...)
    • (Added to 2.11) Avoid clearing the screen when executing a display filter (more...)
    • (Added to 2.11) Color text in the index screen (more...)
    • (Added to 2.11) Color the text in the folder list screen (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Cygwin Version of Alpine (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Encrypt your password file using a personal certificate (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Decode folder names that contain 8 bit characters (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Create new threads even when replying to a message (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Get the name of the slow server (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Send help links through e-mail (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Get the quota report from an IMAP server (more...)
    • (Added to 2.10) Select messages by the content of an arbitrary header (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.20) Make Pico only warn once about a file with long lines (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.20) Open an attachment before it is removed (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.00) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not display digests (more...)
    • (Fixed in 1.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine add spaces to flowed text messages (more...)
    • (Fixed in 1.10) Fix a bug that makes Pico crash (more...)
    • (Fixed in 1.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not wrap html messages (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.01) Fix a bug in Alpine that makes it not to set a flag in a filtered message (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.01) Fix a bug in Pico and Pilot that makes them crash for bad locale information (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine crash when attempting to open a connection to an IMAP server (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not display some html messages correctly (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Pico wrap incorrectly long words (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine crash when the screen is resized (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Parse environment variables correctly (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix the type of a .docx document (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Parse out white space in addresses (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug to decode mime encoded words (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Read encrypted and signed messages (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not build when SMIME is enabled (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Automatically update the index screen when using the SMARTDATE token (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not show a login prompt (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not give a correct new mail message (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that sends Alpine in an infinite loop (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a memory leak in Alpine (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug in the threading algorithm (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Do not reopen a folder that is meant to be closed (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine ignore the week day of a preftime token (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Force update of the index screen after adding an address to the addressbook (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug in Pico which makes it not update the screen (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine crash when suspending it (more...)
    • (Fixed in 2.10) Fix a bug that makes Alpine not to give a warning if the Newsgroup header is present (more...)