diff --git a/packages/alpine/build.sh b/packages/alpine/build.sh
index 9e73f2fa7..87f9ef36e 100644
--- a/packages/alpine/build.sh
+++ b/packages/alpine/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://alpine.freeiz.com
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Fast, easy to use email client"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.21
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://alpine.freeiz.com/alpine/release/src/alpine-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://fossies.org/linux/misc/alpine-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libcrypt, ncurses, openssl"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 --disable-debug
@@ -16,17 +16,6 @@ TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6030b6881b8168546756ab3a5e43628d8d564539b0476578e287775573a77438
 
-termux_step_post_extract_package() {
-	# requires installing autopoint default docker image doesn't have that installed as yet.
-	# adding huge patchsets to termux-packages repo is not optimal so we do it this way for now.
-	local file="$TERMUX_PKG_CACHEDIR/maildir.patch.gz"
-	termux_download \
-		http://alpine.freeiz.com/alpine/patches/alpine-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/maildir.patch.gz \
-		"$file" \
-		1229ea9ec4e150dda1d2da866730a777148874e4667c54cd2c488101b5db8099
-	gunzip -c $file | patch -s -p1
-}
-
 termux_step_pre_configure () {
 	export TCC=$CC
 	export TRANLIB=$RANLIB
@@ -36,6 +25,9 @@ termux_step_pre_configure () {
 
 	LDFLAGS+=" -lcrypt -llog"
 
+	# To get S_IREAD and friends:
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -D__USE_BSD"
+
 	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getpass.c $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/include/
 	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/getpass.h $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/include/
 	cp $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/pine.conf $TERMUX_PREFIX/etc/pine.conf
diff --git a/packages/alpine/maildir.patch b/packages/alpine/maildir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index da98f9d73..000000000
--- a/packages/alpine/maildir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- ../cache/alpine-2.20/imap/src/osdep/unix/maildir.c	2016-12-15 23:03:33.602342634 +0000
-+++ ./imap/src/osdep/unix/maildir.c	2016-12-15 23:15:58.433872870 +0000
-@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <ctype.h>
- #include <errno.h>
--extern int errno;		/* just in case */
- #include "mail.h"
- #include <pwd.h>
- #include <sys/stat.h>
-@@ -20,7 +19,6 @@
- #include "misc.h"
- #include "dummy.h"
- #include "maildir.h"
--
- /* Driver dispatch used by MAIL */
- DRIVER maildirdriver = {
-   "md",				/* driver name, yes it's md, not maildir */
-@@ -1491,7 +1489,7 @@
- 	}
-     } while (done == 0);
- 
--    if ((fd = open (path1,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,S_IREAD|S_IWRITE)) < 0) {
-+    if ((fd = open (path1,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)) < 0) {
-        snprintf (tmp, sizeof(tmp), "Can't open append mailbox: %s", strerror (errno));
-        mm_log (tmp, ERROR);
-        return NIL;
diff --git a/packages/alpine/picoosdepfilesys.h.patch b/packages/alpine/picoosdepfilesys.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 399988386..000000000
--- a/packages/alpine/picoosdepfilesys.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- ../cache/alpine-2.20/pico/osdep/filesys.h	2015-01-12 05:12:25.274177340 +0000
-+++ ./pico/osdep/filesys.h	2016-12-11 00:14:00.413116231 +0000
-@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
- 
- #ifndef PICO_OSDEP_FILESYS_INCLUDED
- #define PICO_OSDEP_FILESYS_INCLUDED
--
-+#define S_IWRITE S_IWUSR
-+#define S_IREAD S_IRUSR
- 
- #include "../../pith/osdep/canaccess.h" /* for *_ACCESS */
-