Command-line tool

macpine

brew/macpine

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Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install macpine

Linux

brew install macpine

Open alpine normally

alpine

Open alpine directly to the message composition screen to send an email to a given email address

alpine email@example.net

Quit alpine

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