• Alpine - remote pinerc

    From Tim Woodall@21:1/5 to Roger Price on Sat Jan 25 10:50:01 2025
    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote:

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:
    "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"

    This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a

    As there clearly are more holdouts of traditional mail than just me,
    does anone else of this pine crowd use the remote pinerc features?

    The Bookworm upgrade broke this for me. I thought I'd reported a bug but
    I don't see it now so perhaps I didnt bother.

    I have this patch:

    apt-mirror@aptmirror19:/mnt/mirror/local/main/a/alpine (master)$ cat fix-password-saving.patch
    diff -urN alpine-2.26+dfsg.orig/alpine/imap.c alpine-2.26+dfsg/alpine/imap.c --- alpine-2.26+dfsg.orig/alpine/imap.c 2022-06-03 00:14:00.463274817 +0000
    +++ alpine-2.26+dfsg/alpine/imap.c 2022-06-03 00:14:00.463274817 +0000
    @@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@
    (mb->sslflag||mb->tlsflag), 0, 0);
    #ifdef LOCAL_PASSWD_CACHE
    /* if requested, remember it on disk for next session */
    - if(save_password && F_OFF(F_DISABLE_PASSWORD_FILE_SAVING,ps_global))
    + if(save_password && F_OFF(F_DISABLE_PASSWORD_FILE_SAVING,ps_global) && !ps_global->nowrite_password_cache)
    set_passfile_passwd(ps_global->pinerc, *pwd,
    altuserforcache ? altuserforcache : user, hostlist,
    (mb->sslflag||mb->tlsflag),

    which make it honour the -nowrite_password_cache commandline parameter.

    It's not perfect but solves it (mostly) for me. But if other are using
    remote pinerc files successfully then perhaps I've got a configuration
    wrong somewhere. My problem was related to it repeatedly asking if I
    wanted to save the passwor
  • From Tim Woodall@21:1/5 to Bret Busby on Sat Jan 25 11:00:01 2025
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:


    I trust that you are aware of the (now) alpine mailing list?

    That mailing list includes people involved in the ongoing development and maintenance of the alpine email software (not alpine Linux), and, is at https://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info

    I wasn't - thanks. I'll join.

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