Update screenshots and version information of alpine in the mailers subsection of the electronic mail chapter of the FreeBSD handbook
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Status: Closed
Time to complete: 72 hrs
Mentors: PÁLI Gábor János, Gavin Atkinson
Description of task
The FreeBSD handbook chapter on electronic mail explains how to use the alpine mailer. However, the screenshots in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-agents.html section need to be updated to show current version of alpine instead of pine 4.58. The security warning also needs to be revisited whether it is still relevant.
Task requires:
A FreeBSD system (in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine) installed on your computer.
Knowledge of the documentation guidelines for the FreeBSD project: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/
Check out a copy of the documentation tree from the documentation repository to get the source code for the chapter
Uploaded Work
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpine1.zip | 170.7 KB | November 25 2011 17:09 UTC | |
| alpine.zip | 915.3 KB | November 25 2011 17:11 UTC | |
| new file | 270 bytes | November 25 2011 18:13 UTC |
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i've created a vb vm on vista 32 and i've run the command "make install" in /usr/ports/mail/alpine
but now "alpine" returns "alpine: commanded not found" (also asciiquarium fails to run
and man alpine works )
i have a little experience with the Linux cli
not much compiling
thank you
You want to try typing hash -r. tcsh, the default shell, caches installed programs and doesn't look for new ones on failure.
I think "rehash" also does the trick.
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alpine1 contains the best shots
and is a proper subset of alpine
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...but please do not forget about revisiting the security warning for alpine.
i am not the freeBSD security officer (thank god)
however the latest alpine news is
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html
and this http://www.washington.edu/alpine/changes.html suggests development has ended (which I beleave to be a bad sign)
Yes, indeed, the development of alpine is stopped somewhere in 2008. And there is still an active CVE for it: http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-5005/
Probably we shall update the text to reflect the current situation.
Could you please submit an updated warning text for it? (So I could close the task?)
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sorry for being such a n00b
You were not n00b at all. It has been fine! Hope to see you contributing to FreeBSD in the future :-)