[Alpine-info] question about password authentication

[David Prager Branner]

Yes, many thanks. I am using Ubuntu 10.04.1, and I see that the version of
Alpine supplied with that is compiled with password file support.

Now a more thorny

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Eduardo Chappa <chappa at u.washington.edu>wrote:


> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, David Prager Branner wrote:

>

> :) Is there a way to automate password-entry from within Alpine, for IMAP

> :) and SMTP connections?

>

> Yes, Alpine must have been compiled with password file support.

>

> If you want to know if your version of Alpine was compiled with password

> file support, try the command

>

> alpine -h | grep passfile

>

> if the output is non-empty, then your version can store passwords.

>

> In that case, do as follows.

>

> $ cd

> $ touch foo

> $ alpine -passfile foo

>

> Everything will work as before, except that when you open a new

> connection, you will be asked if you want to store the password.

>

> I hope this helps.

>

> --

> Eduardo

> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

>

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