On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 20:07 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Please could we have the next version of Alpine compiled
> with the PASSFILE option, so Alpine will then read the
> password directly from the .password-file in my home
> directory.
This sounds pretty much explicit:
--with-passfile=FILENAME
Password cache file (NOT secure, NOT recommended)
It looks like we would have to hardcode the name of the password file
for all users (1) and it is actually unclear to me what would then the
behavior of alpine be (2):
* Is it going to quietly save all passwords to this file? (This would be
totally unacceptable for most users and extremely rude from our side!)
* Is it only going to read the passwords from the file if it exists and
the password for the specified server is indeed in there?
Having this said I am very reluctant to turn this feature on.
> My problem is my web hosting provider's SMTP server wants a
> password, and I have to keep pasting this each time I send
> an email via their SMTP server.
I think that you are approaching your problem from the wrong angle. Why
wouldn't you set up a system-wide MTA as a smarthost instead?
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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