[Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

[Damion Yates]

On Saturday, December 2, 2023, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

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>

> Am I reading this whole thread right?



No?



> People are switching email

>

clients, jumping through all sorts of hoops, and having panic attacks

> so they can work with Gmail? If that's so, the problem isn't Alpine or

> disabilities, it's Gmail



I think you've misunderstood the thread.  An update to alpine added a
master password and this version landed with the various distributions
packaging recently.  People are losing their s**t over that and panicking
and switching clients!

IMAP via most ISPs, Hotmail, yahoo, Gmail etc all use passwords so having a
master password to cache these so it can decrypt the secrets necessary for
alpine to connect to those is sensible.

The technique to avoid/disabled this is too complicated for novice users or
those with difficulty using computers like the blind, so they are asking
for help.

The best solution is probably to tie into a system keychain,
win/mac/KDE/gnome all support this and can unlock access to alpine based on
a user's login in at the start of their session.

 HTH,

 - Damion


-- 
Damion Yates - damion.yates at gmail.com
London, England
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