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Your privacy is important to me. When you access this site a log is kept on the pages you visited. I have access to daily logs which are normally erased, and if I do not see them, I miss them. I must login to this site about twice a month, and I take a look at the site logs at that time. The logs record your IP address, the date and time when you made a request to the server, the exact request you made, the http status code received by your server, and the browser you used. When I read the logs, I only look at which pages people have accessed, and make a mental note about them, and I do not make any concerted effort to associate an IP address with a pattern of visits. This information is just for purposes of me knowing what pages users visited, and nothing more. I have had access to this information since March 2020, and no information previous to that time is available to me.
 
I also find it amusing to read the 404 errors. It shows people looking for newer versions of Alpine, and other plugins that do not exist. I try not to link to missing pages, but if I do, please report it to me so that I can fix it.
 
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Latest Release Version 2.24

• Source Code alpine-2.24.tar.xz (MD5: 1c520c3a791b019772570674c7c17073 (SHA256: 651a9ffa0a29e2b646a0a6e0d5a2c8c50f27a07a26a61640b7c783d06d0abcef) (GPG Signature: alpine-2.24.tar.xz.sig).
• Windows Binary
  • For Windows 10 or any 64 bit version of WIndows: alpine-2.24.zip
    (MD5: 619b5b46c5630591f184091a22011583)
    (SHA256: 055a137e9aaa2e046c98de5809cc0d87eea7fcdd7f78d23ae26e1c276ff4424c)
  • For an old version of Windows, such as XP, which is 32 bit: alpine-2.24_32bits.zip
    (MD5: 83e6bf25e07c07cad8a5efea2ec2dca2)
    (SHA256: e64840734747b340ecdd581964a51c36956ae9b69ea3f4025b28b3cacf87a603)

In order to check the integrity of your download, you might need my GPG public key.

This version is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
 
Version 2.24 includes several new features and bug fixes.

Additions include:

• Implementation of XOAUTH2 for Yahoo! Mail.
• Expansion of the configuration screen for XOAUTH2 to include username, authorization flow, and tenant.
• XOAUTH2: automatic renew of access token and connection to a server within 60 seconds of expiration of the access token.
• If a user has more than one client-id for a service, Alpine asks the user which client-id to use and associates that client-id to the credentials in the XOAUTH2 configuration screen.
• Addition of Yandex.com to the list of services that Alpine can use XOAUTH2 to authenticate for reading and sending email.
• Addition of a link to the Apache License 2.0 (see above). This is available from the Release Notes as well as the welcome screen.
• Modifications to protect the privacy of users:
  • Alpine does not generate Sender or X-X-Sender by default by enabling [X] Disable Sender as the default.
  • Alpine does not disclose User Agent by default by enabling [X] Suppress User Agent by default.
  • Alpine uses the domain in the From: header of a message to generate a message-id and suppresses all information about Alpine, version, revision, and time of generation of the message-id from this header. This information is replaced by a random string.
• Unix Alpine displays configure options and flags when invoked as "alpine -v". Suggested by Matt Ackeret.
• Alpine will ding the terminal bell when asking about quitting when new mail arrives. This is consistent with Alpine dinging the bell when new mail arrives. The bell will not ding if it is disabled for status messages. Suggested by Chime Hart.
• When messages are selected, pressing the ";" command to broaden or narrow a search, now offers the possibility to completely replace the search, and is almost equivalent to being a shortcut to "unselect all messages, and select again". The difference is that cancelling this command will not unselect all currently selected messages. Suggested by Holger Trapp.
• Alpine will not write debug files unless started with the option -d, so for example "alpine -d 2" will generate a debug file at level 2, but just issuing the alpine command will not write any debug to a file.
• Experimental: Attempt to implement the Encryption Range in Windows. It works in Windows 10, and it should work in Windows 8.1. It needs testing in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
• Addition of variables user-certs-path and user-certs-file which allow a user to specify locations for certificates that the user trusts.
• Ignore non-empty initial challenge in the GSSAPI authenticator. Based on a patch written by Jarek Polok, but submitted by Ignacio Reguero.
• When a server expires a refresh token, Alpine needs to cancel it internally. Alpine will attempt to get a new one when it reopens the folder after it cancels it.
• Set up the IMAP ID at the moment of logging in to the server, rather than as a one time option, in case we need to use a special IMAP ID.

Bugs that have been addressed include:

• When Alpine starts a PREAUTH connection, it might still ask the user to login. Reported by Frank Tobin.
• Crash while resizing the screen when viewing a calendar event.
• When Alpine opens a folder in a server whose address is given numerically it might crash due to an incorrect freeing of memory. Reported by Wang Kang.
• Crash when Alpine frees memory on a system where LC_CTYPE is not configured, and the user calls the file browser to attach files to a message. Reported by Luis Gerardo Tejero.
• Invalid signatures created by Alpine, when built with recent releases of the Openssl-1.1.1 series (but not in the Openssl-1.0.1 series). Fix contributed by Bernd Edlinger.
• After returning from the directory side of a dual-folder, sometimes Alpine would return to the first folder in the parent directory or to the dual-folder. The fix is to return to the original dual-folder as intended. Reported by Holger Trapp.
• When an attachment is deleted and the original message is saved, Alpine might write only a part of the name of the file deleted. Reported by Holger Trapp.
• URLs that are surrounded by white space are not cleaned by Alpine before passing them to the browser, resulting in no display of the URL when Alpine tries to open it. Reported by Gregory Heytings.
• When Alpine is built without smime, password file functionality might fail. Reported by Andres Fehr.
• Crash in PC-Alpine when using the eXternal command.
• Fix in Macs that made Alpine abort a ssh connection to an imap server. Reported and assisted by Wang Kang.

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Last Updated Sat Oct 10 16:59:35 MDT 2020