Steve Litt asks

• And most important, where can I find the best, most unambiguous Alpine documentation, that doesn't assume I know anything about Alpine?

The ~/.pinerc config file is well documented. There is a bewildering number of options, and you can tweak it just about anyway you like.

Choice of mail readers tend to a religious issue. Users of a particular reader will only change when you pry their cold dead fingers off of it.

Alpine is not a bad choice (I've been using it and it's predeccesor for decades), and I go through mail faster than most people I know as I can type faster than they can click buttons, scroll, and drag windows around. However, it sort of sucks when you read formatted mail HTML with lots of graphics).

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com