I start alpine with the following alias

alias pine='alpine -p \{imap202.home.woodall.me.uk/norsh/tls/user=tim\}remote_pinerc'

and after entering my password I get:

Preserve password on DISK for next login? [y]:

I don't want to do this. My googling suggested that I could set

[X] Disable Password Caching
[X] Disable Password File Saving

But this doesn't work. The setting has been added to my remove_pinerc successfully:

diff -u 1716741312.M572575P3067.imap202.home.woodall.me.uk\,S\=4980\,W\=5056\:2\,S 1714905325.M710303P24542.imap202.home.woodall.me.uk\,S\=4921\,W\=4995\:2\,S
--- 1716741312.M572575P3067.imap202.home.woodall.me.uk,S=4980,W=5056:2,S 2024-05-26 16:35:12.600198938 +0000
+++ 1714905325.M710303P24542.imap202.home.woodall.me.uk,S=4921,W=4995:2,S 2024-05-05 10:35:25.737002123 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
x-pine-pinerc: 1368669514
-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 17:35:12 +0100 (BST)
+Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 11:35:25 +0100 (BST)
From: Pine Remote Data <nobody@nowhere>
Subject: Pine Remote Data Container
MIME-Version: 1.0
@@ -28,16 +28,14 @@
enable-unix-pipe-cmd,
enable-bounce-cmd,
no-compose-send-offers-first-filter,
- disable-index-locale-dates,
- disable-password-file-saving,
- disable-password-caching
+ disable-index-locale-dates
sort-key=tHread
folder-sort-rule=alpha-with-dirs-first
goto-default-rule=most-recent-folder
character-set=iso-8859-1
editor=/usr/bin/vim
last-time-prune-questioned=124.5
-last-version-used=6.26
+last-version-used=6.24
remote-abook-metafile=.ab009012

On 2024-05-26, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:

Anyone got any ideas how to disable this?

If you have ~/.alpine.passfile apparently it will keep asking, but maybe
you don't, in which case I'm stumped.

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On Mon, 27 May 2024, Curt wrote:

On 2024-05-26, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:

Anyone got any ideas how to disable this?

If you have ~/.alpine.passfile apparently it will keep asking, but maybe
you don't, in which case I'm stumped.

Thanks, no that file doesn't exist. I'm a bit stumped too - and another
problem has come up that has handicapped me investigating in the source although I've now found a workaround.

Tim.

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