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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 2.26

• Source Code alpine-2.26.tar.xz
  • MD5: 0943b31c476276e924b02afbfaf98392
  • SHA256: c0779c2be6c47d30554854a3e14ef5e36539502b331068851329275898a9baba
  GPG Signature: alpine-2.26.tar.xz.sig.
• Windows Binary
  • For Windows 10 or any 64 bit version of WIndows: alpine-2.26.zip
    
    • MD5: c9dc33c27f05770b9604ce50b220946b
    • SHA256: d754c781f84e4034ddbc6e33188deef5b3566bdcd296945cad7ee955a070ae3b
  • For an old version of Windows, such as XP, which is 32 bit: alpine-2.26_32bits.zip
    
    • MD5: 499b144858fbba9ceaf1efb4ca6327fc
    • SHA256: 507aa9e54d02f4b588a5889e47632c71e796eb2bbb6023915de386f9ee6d0693

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 2.26 includes several new features and bug fixes.

Additions include:

• Unix version of Alpine (not including OSX). Alpine is built with password file support by default. If Alpine is built with SMIME support and the password file does not exist, then Alpine will create it by default and encrypt it.
• In the past Alpine did not recognize images embedded in an HTML file, so now it does and a link to open them is given. Additionally, Alpine did not pass these images to an external browser for display using the external command, and now it will.
• Support for code_verifier and code_challenge when generating a refresh token and access token in Gmail and Outlook using the S256 method and plain method.
• Change the redirect_uri scheme for Gmail, as Google is deprecating the use of oob. Changed to http://localhost. Users are supposed to enter the URL they see in their browser in place of the code.
• Some servers do not allow the Drafts folder to be removed, even when it is empty. Alpine, however, assumes that if the folder exists, it must contain a draft message. This joint collaboration with Thomas Uhle modifies alpine to not to attempt to continue a draft message if the draft folder is empty.
• Contributions by Thomas Uhle:
  • Add support to the LDAP attribute "userCertificate";
  • Move voiceMailTelephoneNumber from the TCL side to ldap_translate;
  • XOAUTH2 state generator changes format specifier from %x to %02x;
  • Web Alpine will not attempt to continue a postponed message if the postponed-msgs folder is empty.
• Improvements to the screen that allows a user to select the client-id when a user attempts to login to a server and more than one client-id is available for that server. In this case additional information is given: The method to use (device or authorize), a user id that uses the suggested client-id or a report that the client-id has not been used.
• To protect the privacy of a user, the message-id of a message will be generated using the domain in the From field of the message.
• When saving to a folder in the unix format, Alpine parses the destination folder to assign uids to all messages in the folder. When the destination folder is large this could significantly slow down alpine. Fix based on a patch submitted to the alpine-info list by Chris Caputo.
• Add the LOGOUT command to the list of commands that can be automatically interrupted in case the connection becomes unstable during that command and Alpine times out its connection to the server.
• If new mail has arrived when a user is closing a mailbox, Alpine will also announce how many new messages have arrived. Suggested by Chime Hart.
• When an invitation does not have a timezone in the date of the event, but the date is in GMT, adjust the date to local time.

Bugs that have been addressed include:

• Crash when invoking Alpine from the command line and an attempt to authorize alpine to use XOAUTH2 is done. Alpine crashes because of a missing optional parameter -xoauth2-flow and because no screen has been configured yet. Reported by Baron Fujimoto.
• Alpine crashes when it cannot retrieve the privacy policy due to failure connecting to the external server.
• Alpine might delete all passwords from the password file if the password file is not unlocked by cancellation, or the authentication for an XOAUTH2 server is cancelled, or the password of an account is changed.
• When the personal name of an address is encoded, and the personal name is surrounded by quotes, these are not removed by Alpine at the time to offer to take an address from a message to the addressbook. Reported by David Prager Branner.
• If a user configures the sendmail-path variable, and does not use a global smtp-server, then Alpine will use the sendmail-path even when the user configured a smtp-server for a role. Reported by Gregory Heytings.
• Crash in PC-Alpine when creating a mail collection and no username is indicated in the server path. Reported by Sandy Schuman.
• Crash in Alpine when running a filter that moves deleted messages the INBOX in a Gmail account. Reported by Jyrki Voutilainen.

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Last Updated Sun 30 Apr 2023 08:03:50 PM MDT