Subject: Automatic password request.

From: Luca Heltai <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:30:26 +0200 (ora legale Europa occ.)

I'm trying to tune up the behaviour of pine to my own needs, and there is
one thing which I find particolarly annoing...
I'm accessing an imap server, and store all my configurations and
addressbooks there, as I'm the only one who accesses my own computer, (a
linux powered lap top) I'd love to avoid having the need of typing my
password every single time I access to pine, but there seems to be no such
an option in the server setting...
Is there a possibility to find a work around this eccess of security?

Something like

{my.imap.server.here/user="myusernamehere"/password="mypasswordhere"}MYINBOXHERE

I know it is not secure, and averybody can get my pass by looking at my
config file... but it is not so different from what happens with
fetchmail, isn't it?

Thanks for any feedback...

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:56:36 -0700 (PDT)

*** Luca Heltai ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I'm accessing an imap server, and store all my configurations and
:) addressbooks there, as I'm the only one who accesses my own computer, (a
:) linux powered lap top) I'd love to avoid having the need of typing my
:) password every single time I access to pine, but there seems to be no such
:) an option in the server setting...

You need to compile Pine by yourself, and compile as you would normally
do, but add the following:

build xxx EXTRACFLAGS="-DPASSFILE="pine.pwd""

after you've finished compiling, create an empty file in the pine.pwd in
the same directory where your .pinerc file and start pine as usual. You'll
be asked about saving your password for future sessions.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/