[Alpine-info] question about password authentication

[David Prager Branner]

Sorry — sloppy typing.

A more thorny question: since I use Alpine to access different email
accounts from a single session, both sending and receiving, in different
roles. Is there a way to store the passwords for multiple accounts?

Thanks again.

- dpb

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:58 AM, David Prager Branner <
brannerchinese at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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