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

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Peter G. wrote:


> Hello Mike,

>

> Does ~/.pine-passfile work?


Yes.



>> 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...



Very funny. ;-)

Thanks, Peter.

Mike