Alpine, not to be confused with the Linux distro [1], is wonderful. I had used Pine since the '90s because nothing comes close to the speed of checking email directly on the email server itself via a TUI. Alpine, I learned, is a suitable successor to Pine, and is even better.<p>It's definitely faster than Pine, particularly in searches and applying actions to groups of messages. It has several cute little animations which play while waiting for a mailbox to open which, while not practical, is nice. It supports OATH so I don't have to deal with the absolute hell which is the Gmail web interface when I need to access Gmail email.<p>If nothing else, it's an excellent tool to keep around when there are other problems and you either need to send / check email quickly, or you want to diagnose mail problems and want to take your local email client out of the equation. Highly recommended!<p>[1] I had followed someone on Twitter, when it was a thing, who was active with Alpine Linux. They almost never mentioned the "Linux" part, so I genuinely thought it was an Alpine email client developer.