On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 21:41 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > 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
Ok, that doesn't look so bad, but now I see that Dag has explicitly turned this option off in favor of "platform-specific password caching". I wonder if these options are incompatible... Dag, do you think we can turn it back on? > 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? No, I am suggesting you to set up an MTA (be it sendmail, postfix or whatever you like most), which would relay your locally submitted mail through an external SMTP server and consequently take care of authentication; you can additionally make it listen for SMTP connections, but this is not strictly necessary. I.e.: http://www.joshfrank.com/articles/sendmail_smart_host -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
