[Alpine-info] Prompting for UserID when Starting ALPINE.

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


:) >You are right, it has support for saving passwords without without the 

:) >need of a file in Mac and Windows. The information I gave was 

:) >unixcentrc. I guess I forget that there are other operative systems 

:) >than linux. Oh well.

:) 

:) I thought there was some sort of analogous feature in at least one of 

:) the distributions of Linux.  (I seem to remember it's what FireFox or 

:) one of the other browsers uses for name/password info.)  But I'm 

:) getting way farther into the "vague idea" territory.


I'm not aware of anything of that type.


:) BTW, PLEASE respect the Reply-To setting.  I set it so that I don't get

:) duplicate email. 


I understand why you do it, but you did not get a duplicate message, so 
this seems more a matter of aesthetics.


:) Someone adding me back in has to do extra work to put me back in, so 

:) usually me setting Reply-To works.  (Just like I'm about to remove your 

:) name from the To list, since I'm already sending to the list...)


That's fine, that's your choice. I can't dictate what you do on the other 
side of the screen. Hopefully you will not try to do the same to others.

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