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Description:
News and email agent

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 2.26@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Productivity

Tags: email newsreader terminal tui nntp

Install: brew install alpine

About:
Alpine is a powerful, easy-to-use news and email agent with a pico-based interface. It provides a text-based environment for managing email, news, and other messaging tasks. Its main value proposition is offering a full-featured communication suite directly within the terminal.

Key Features:

Text-based user interface (TUI) optimized for terminal use
Support for both email (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) and NNTP news reading
Advanced features like MIME support, encryption (PGP/GPG), and Sieve filtering
Highly configurable with extensive keyboard shortcuts

Use Cases:

Managing email on remote servers via SSH without a GUI
Reading Usenet newsgroups from the command line
Performing email tasks on low-resource systems

Alternatives:

mutt – Mutt is another popular text-based email client, often considered more configurable but with a steeper learning curve.
claws-mail – Claws Mail is a graphical GTK-based email client, offering a more traditional desktop experience.

License: Apache-2.0

Dependencies: openssl@3, linux-pam

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, arm64_monterey, arm64_big_sur, sonoma, ventura, monterey, big_sur, catalina, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 9:56am		0	VERSION_BUMP	f891141f
Sep 11, 2024 8:21am		0	VERSION_BUMP	49f5f61a