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

[Peter G.]

Hello Mike,

Hodie X Kal. Apr. MMDCCLXII AUC quidam 'Mike Miller' inquit ita:


>

> I guess I'd have to go for the Ubuntu version of the source?  Maybe someone 

> here knows about this strange behavior.


Does ~/.pine-passfile work?


>From http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_2.00+dfsg-2/changelog



> alpine (0.83+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

>   * Bumped compat/ to 5 for future use of dh_strip.

>   * Uses --with-debug-level=0 instead of entirely removing the

>     feature.

>   * Fixes pinerc handling for address book sorting. (Closes: #410300)

>   * Supports GNU/kFreeBSD in configure.ac. (Closes: #414228)

>   * Renames passfile to ~/.pine-passfile in keeping with e.g. .pinerc.

>   * Documented that in README.Debian.


and README.Debian:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/ext-maint/alpine/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

> In this package, the file ~/.pine-passfile is where Alpine stores its

> obfuscated password.


Not all that obscure...

Hope this helps,
   Peter G.

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