[Alpine-info] How to re-port Alpine from 25 to 587

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Doug Barton wrote:


> Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>

>> This may mean one of two things. Either password file is not compiled 

>> in, or the name of the default file is not ~/.alpine.pwd.

>

> Eduardo's advice is right on. I should have pointed out in my previous 

> message that .alpine.pwd is not the default, I set that in my FreeBSD 

> port using the configure option. IIRC the default is ~/.pine.pwd.



OK, but mine doesn't use a default at all (see below).  This is what you 
wrote earlier:



> In your alpine port run 'make config', enable the PASSFILE option, and

> re-install alpine. Then do this before you start it up:

> touch ~/.alpine.pwd

> 

> The next time you enter a password it will prompt you to save it if you

> wish.



So if I make a ~/.pine.pwd file, I would expect Alpine to recognize that, 
but it ignores it.  My Ubuntu package version of Alpine 2.00 seems not to 
work that way at all.  It does not remember a file.  It requires, as far 
as I can tell, that I start it every time with the passfile argument:

alpinenw -passfile ~/.pine.pwd

If I do not use the passfile argument, it will prompt for the password. 
It's funny that different copies of Alpine work in different ways.

Thanks to Eduardo for his assistance.

I tried strace but there was no clue there that it was looking for a 
password file.  I looked at all the lines, several dozen, where it looked 
for files.  The one that it looked for and didn't find was ~/.pinercex, 
but that isn't it, is it?

Mike