Re: alpine status?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine?
I am getting mixed messages about this, one from my web hosting company
suggesting I join the developer's list, and another from an end user
claiming that development no longer exists.
Thanks much,
Karen
Hello.
I suggest that you visit
http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
and subscribe to that mailing list, and, post your query there.
I believe that you would find that development of alpine, is alive and
well, and, that list includes the developers.
I believe that the version of alpine that I use, is 2.00, running on Debian 6.
Bret's information is out of date.
There is no life at the University of Washington project.
The mailing list archives are gone. A subscribe request
goes unanswered. There is a Debian bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687582
and no progress on that for a couple of years.
This is actually my incentive for looking into this - I run
into this bug every day.
re-alpine is a new project taking over the alpine effort.
However, the latest files there are from 2012, so I wonder
how active this project is.
See message below.
It is from the alpine mailing list to which I referred, which has
distributed messages this month, and, the message below, refers to
ongoing development of alpine.
If you do not believe me, that the alpine mailing list is still active,
send a message direct to the poster of the message below, asking about
the mailing list.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:40:53
From: Eduardo Chappa <chappa@gmx.com>
Cc: alpine-info@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Signing problems
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I try to sign emails with Alpine (latest version, 2.11).
Gregory,
Neither Alpine 2.11 nor previous versions, are very good at doing S/MIME. Please try the latest alpha version to see if that makes a difference with you.
You can get it at
http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/alpha/release/
(I am working out a few minor bugs in that release, and adding new features at this time.)
Now, in regards to verifying signatures. Well, that is a complex issue. There are many ways in which a signed message can fail to verify. Some of these
ways are predictable, and the latest alpha pre-release attempts up to 8 strategies to verify a signed message before it gives up in verifying the signature.
There are ways to add more strategies, but the total number of strategies Alpine can do increases exponentially (in powers of 2) when a new strategy is
added. Again, it is hard to guess why a specific message does not verify, but it you are willing to share an example with me, I might help you understand
why alpine 2.11 fails to verify it.
In regards to what to do with the .p12 comodo certificate, this is now included in the S/MIME help of Alpine, and so let me quote the text:
<HELP>
In order to create a private key use the command
openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out your@address.com.key
In order to create a public certificate use the command
openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out your@address.com.crt
In order to create a certificate authority certificate use the command
openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -cacerts -nokeys -out certificate-ca.crt
</HELP>
I hope this helps.
--
Eduardo
http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/
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