[Alpine-info] Typing passwords

[Daniel B.]

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:


>> >  On Tue, 27 May 2008, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

>> > 

>> > >   Hi,

>> > > 

>> > >   everytime I send an e-mail, I have to type my password since my 

>> > >   server

>> > >   requires authentication. I'm pretty sure my password is correct but 

>> > >  Alpine

>> > >   asks me 2 or 3 times everytime.

>> > > 

>> > >   Any hints?

>> > > 

>> > >   Thank you.

>

> When you authenticate to the SMTP server it is first trying to authenticate 

> using the authenticator called CRAM-MD5. You are typing your password for 

> that and it is failing. After 3 failures it falls back to using PLAIN 

> authentication (which exposes your password on the net) and that is working.

>

> Our sorely missed colleague mrc would no doubt be able to figure out why the 

> CRAM-MD5 authentication is failing, but I'm not able to do that. If you would 

> like to skip the CRAM-MD5 and go straight to the PLAIN authentication it 

> should be possible to configure alpine to do that. In Setup/Config find

>

>  Disable These Authenticators

>

> and put the value CRAM-MD5 in there. Thanks.


Thank you for answering, but I didn't find this option in Setup/Config. 
I have looked with ^W but with no success.

Thank you.