On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Sorry make that 2.22 for the one we are getting.
Alpine gets an update with them as well, from 2.1 to 2.2. Or something
like that. What is the greatest difference I can expect?
I recently upgraded from 2.21 typo 2.25 "all patches" (built by me) and
everything works as before ...
... PLUS that I now have the possibilities to use a master password (I
guess that's enabled just since 2.22)
I was skeptical below about the master password, but I now find it handy
because I have 3 imap/pop servers to check each one with its own sometimes
complicated password.
A while ago I attempted to report on this mailing list, but my message
was blocked by some filter. I summarize here:
- first of all I normally read mail stored locally on my machine,
which is fetched from the imap server by fetchmail.
- I use direct Alpine-to-IMAP only for urgent checks before the
fetching or to check the spam folders which aren't fetched.
- due to change of gsuite to 2-factor-authentication (2FA), I route my
gsuite email via another provider and fetch it from there.
- alternatively I can access the gsuite IMAP from Alpine for the
urgent/spam checks using an "app password" since 2FA does not
allow usage of the normal interactive password from alpine or fetchmail
Anyhow my suggestion is to make a backup of your .pinerc before you
migrate to a new version, than compare the backup with the new one after a
real run with the new one, and check if there are new keywords and read
the help file. That's what I do.
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