Subject: PC pine password saving feature

From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:58:41 GMT

I've been stuffing my password into PC Pine to save typing it every time I
run Pine (dodgy, I know, but hacking around with the setup I fire it up
and close it down so many times it gets tedious). 

Anyway, yesterday Pine suddenly asks me if I'd like the password saved on
disk. I don't know what I did to make it do so - I had just reduced my
folder-collections from 2 to 1 which was IMAP-accessed, so maybe that was
it. 

And I don't suppose the protection it gives is very strong - it is
encrypted, but it's the same number of characters as the password - but
it's better than having the password floating about in plain text as I
had! 

What i'd like to know is (1) how one can intentionally get Pine to do 
this, and (2) how I can get Unix Pine to do the same?

Oh and whether there's a plain text or postscript manual for Pine around 
(there's a file pine-info which is almost 200K and has some wierd 
MAN-page type formatting in it, and I'm told there's a postscript file 
'amongst the sources' but our ftp connection to ftp.cac.washington is a 
bit flaky and I haven't yet found it. If anyone's got a copy could they 
attach it (possibly ZIPped up) and send it to me? Thanks.

John Stumbles                                        [email-masked]
Reading University                                                  0734 318435
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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:12:45 GMT

> folder-collections from 2 to 1 which was IMAP-accessed, so maybe that was
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> Reading University                                                  0734 318435

PC-PINE Will do this if there is a file PINE.SIG in \PINE; this contains 
the encrypted PW; if this is not accepted by the remote Unix, then PINE 
will request the PW and ask if you want to store it.

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