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VoodooSteve

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-03-31

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[SOLVED] Alpine save passwords

I'm trying to get alpine to save my gmail imap and smtp passwords so I don't have to enter them each session. Numerous tutorials have said it's as easy as creating .pine-passfile in my home directory and selecting yes on the save password dialog following password entry. Unfortunately, I am not seeing this dialog. Any thoughts?

Last edited by VoodooSteve (2010-08-12 04:14:53)

Ashren

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Re: [SOLVED] Alpine save passwords

You need to recompile Alpine from ABS with the flag --with-passfile=.pine-passfile

Three steps:

1. sudo abs extra/alpine
2. cp -R /var/abs/extra/alpine ./
3. cd alpine and edit PKGBUILD and change --without-passfile to --with-passfile=.pine-passfile

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VoodooSteve

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-03-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Alpine save passwords

Thanks this did the trick.