On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > To: Discussions regarding Repoforge for users <[email protected]> > From: Yury V. Zaytsev <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [users] Alpine PASSFILE compile time configuration > > 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.
>From what I have read on the net, Al[ine will only use the password file if it exist in the users home directory. http://objectmix.com/pine/244296-how-make-pine-not-ask-password.html >> 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? Are you suggesting that I sent up my own SMTP server here on localhost, to do the mail sending for me? If so what would you suggest please Yury? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
