[Alpine-info] IMAP server passwords

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Duke Normandin wrote:


:) I have 3 IMAP server accounts, of course, each with a different

:) password. Can Alpine be configured to "remember" these passwords so

:) that I don't have to manually enter them each time I logon to a

:) server? 


Alpine must be compiled with password file support to enable this. In that 
case, the option 

alpine -passfile /full/path/to/foo

will allow you to define the file "foo" as the password file. To start 
this process create an empty file called "foo", and Alpine will start 
saving your passwords in that file.


:) Can Alpine use `.authinfo' for login? 


No, alpine does not know authinfo.

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Eduardo
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