On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:57:31 +0200 AV <volov...@ziggo.nl> wrote: > I have been a longtime user of mutt but switched to > evolution and/of geary to have less configuration > hassle. > Yesterday I had an hour to spare so I decided to > have a look at the Alpine email client. > I installed and did a minimal config only adding > imap, smtp and sender. No password. > Out of curiosity I tried to send myself an email > (to 'volov...@ziggo.nl') expecting Alpine to ask > for my password. To my surprise it looked like > the mail got sent without password. Indeed a few > minutes later I received it in evolution. > Evolution is my default email client on this laptop. > > Could Alpine have used the password encoded by > evolution? I can't find any comprehensive > documentation on the working of alpine and > don't feel like digging into alpine internals > because I am not going to use it. > Maybe somebody with alpine knowledge can explain. >
What does the mail header say? Guesses: do you have postfix or sendmail installed? I suspect you do and alpine is simply using that. It probably never even needed to go through the ziggo.nl server to send mail. Look at the mail header. Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
