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Does Alpine save passwords?

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Niklaus Kuehnis

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Jun 4, 2008, 1:22:58 PM6/4/08
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Hi,

I'm still running Pine though planning to upgrade to Alpine in the
near future.

I see all the ISPs here are starting to enforce SMTP
authentification. It would be pretty annoying typing in my password
everytime I send a message.

Does Alpine support saving of SMTP, POP and IMAP passwords?

Thanks in advance!
Niklaus

student

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Jun 4, 2008, 3:48:02 PM6/4/08
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Alpine does save passwords....BUT I would like to know where!!!
Alpine doesn't save lit ike Pine.

I had unininstalled the beta version; removed the directory for Alpine & find
when I installed the released version, the passwords came back, magically(?).

Niklaus Kuehnis

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Jun 4, 2008, 4:22:12 PM6/4/08
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student <guest@csus__.edu> wrote:
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> Alpine does save passwords....BUT I would like to know where!!!
> Alpine doesn't save lit ike Pine.

> I had unininstalled the beta version; removed the directory for Alpine & find
> when I installed the released version, the passwords came back, magically(?).

To be precise: I am talking about the Linux version. Linux Pine
usually doesn't save passwords, I believe.

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Nik

student

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Jun 4, 2008, 9:24:57 PM6/4/08
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On 2008-06-04, Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehni...@gmx-topmail.de> wrote:

lThe linux version of pine does save passwords in an encrypted/mangled file
in the pine directory; there is a default filename but one can name the
password file some other name, at least for the suse version.

Eduardo Chappa

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Jun 4, 2008, 11:06:55 PM6/4/08
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:

:) Does Alpine support saving of SMTP, POP and IMAP passwords?

Yes, but that support needs to be compiled in. I believe that in Mac and
Windows that is already compiled in. The issue is Linux-like systems. In
that case a password file is used to store the passwords. I believe that
most distributions already include this support automatically (so if you
install a .rpm or .deb from some distribution it will probably have
password file support).

In case you are using a system where you have exclusive access, you do not
need to know the name of the password file. You can create your own. In
this case you need to start alpine as

alpine -passfile /full/path/to/passfile

notice that all you need to do is to create is to create an empty file
where you will store your passwords, and then start alpine as above. The
rest of the process is taken care of by Alpine.

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Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

Niklaus Kuehnis

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Jun 5, 2008, 11:43:46 AM6/5/08
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> alpine -passfile /full/path/to/passfile

Thanks a lot! Great to see Alpine has made some progress here
compared to good old Pine. Also great that Alpine - probably due to
the change of licence - can now be included in the common
distributions.

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Nik

panchito

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Jan 17, 2009, 1:11:18 PM1/17/09
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Niklaus Kuehnis ha escrito:

Easiest is to do:

cd ~
touch .pine-passfile

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