Alpine remembering passwords

[Cheryl Homiak]

I think mutt is more complicated than Alpine; once you get it set up the way you want it, it's fine but the setup is more than a pain at least imo.

As for the password issue, you have to have an alpine that was compiled to handle that. If so, you create a .pine-passfile in your home directory (notice the period in front of pine-passfile). The first time you use alpine after that it asks for your password and then may ask if you want it preserved for the next login. After that, it shouldn't ask any more or only rarely. This works on my arch linux installation in vmware fusion but doesn't work with my Macports ersion of alpine that I use from terminal on my Mac occasionally. I believe you use the touch command to do the passfile and I don't remember if you also assign specific permissions to it. Also, I assume the filename is the same across linux distributions but I could be wrong.  If you are using imap you may still have to enter the password.
 
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Cheryl

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On Jan 5, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Robert Spangler wrote:
>> Finally, do Speakup users in general like Alpine or do you guys
>> prefer something else like Mutt? I used Mutt a long long time ago so
>> I can't remember if it was easier to use than Alpine or not.
> 
> I use mutt, and have done so since I first started doing mail under
> GNU/Linux in late 2000 or so. As for if it's easier than alpine, I
> don't know, since I never had a reason to not want to use mutt. Since
> alpine replaces pine, I can tell you I used pine on systems on which
> mutt wasn't available, and found myself wishing for mutt every
> time. I'm not sure if that's because I was already used to mutt, or if
> there was a deeper reason for my preferring mutt over pine. HTH
> somewhat.
> 
> Greg
> 
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