Subject: Password on pine command line

From: J Poloniecki <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:56:47 +0000 (GMT)

Is there any way to put the mail (account and) password on the command
line when invoking pine?

Please reply to me and not to the list.

Jan

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:08:16 +0100

Sigh.  I wish I had a pound (money, not weight!) for every time I've posted
an answer to this question!

> Is there any way to put the mail (account and) password on the command

You don't say, but I assume you are using UNIX Pine rather than PC-Pine?
(PLEASE help us to help you by giving more complete information, such as
version and version number!)

If you were using PC-Pine there is a Magical Way of having it store your
password locally in a file.  (Whether you think this is safe in your
environment is up to you to decide!)

However this is not present in UNIX Pine.  Instead you should be set up
Pine to establish a "pre-authenticated" connection to your IMAP server.  In
general this is more flexible and perhaps more secure than storing your
password in a file.

For this to work your Systems Manager must have enabled pre-authenticated
connections, by symbolic linking /etc/rimapd to the real imapd executable.

You then need to set up "rsh access" to the computer running your IMAP
server (and no, I'm not going to go into that again ... either trawl the
Pine-Info archives or ask your local Computer Centre Help Desk for
assistance).

You should then find that Pine will auto-open your mail folders without
your having to type in any username or password information at all.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell
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From: Jan Kalin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:35:19 +0200

> an answer to this question!

Hmm, since you wish for a pound and not for a penny, it seems that the
frequency is not *that* high ;-)

Cheers,
Jan

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