The appended patch adds Alpine. It was discontinued by its previous
developer team and is now being developed at
"http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/index.html". There are two versions,
both released by the same developer. The one which every distro uses is
the one with extra, functionality enhancing and bugs fixing patches applied.
This is the one I picked to not break expectations of people.

It compiles, builds, and can be started. I don't know this client and
only worked on it to complete the dinosaurs of mail clients collection
as some people still seem to use Alpine on other distros.
I haven't tested sending mail or receiving mail for obvious reasons. 
and I do not trust applications I rarely use.