On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@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 Bret's information is out of date.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 > .................................................... > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >> >> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:40:53 >> From: Eduardo Chappa <cha...@gmx.com> > >> Cc: alpine-i...@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 y...@address.com.key >> >> In order to create a public certificate use the command >> >> openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out >> y...@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/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Alpine-info mailing list >> alpine-i...@u.washington.edu >> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info >> >> [ Note: This message contains email list management information ] >> > .................................................... >
And, in going to the web page at http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/subscribe/alpine-info as cited, and, thence, from that web page, following the link therein, within the sentence "To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Alpine-info Archives." to the web page at http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/ I find that the mailing list archive goes from September 2006, to October 2014. And, with " ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: alpine-info-requ...@mailman13.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:36:52 -0700 Subject: Welcome to the "Alpine-info" mailing list To: bret.bu...@gmail.com Welcome to the alpine-i...@u.washington.edu mailing list! To post to this list, send your message to: alpine-i...@u.washington.edu General information about the mailing list is at: http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info " I must conclude that the post from "francis picabia" is a misinfomational troll. -- 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 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8PKrOLjGN00oKwNysdRWd+XFco6Y3a71uFs=_ffzzq...@mail.gmail.com
