[Alpine-info] largest change between?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote:


> Sorry make that 2.22 for the one we are getting.



>> Alpine gets an update with them as well, from 2.1 to 2.2. Or something 

>> like that. What is the greatest difference I can expect?


I recently upgraded from 2.21 typo 2.25 "all patches" (built by me) and 
everything works as before ...

... PLUS that I now have the possibilities to use a master password (I 
guess that's enabled just since 2.22)

I was skeptical below about the master password, but I now find it handy 
because I have 3 imap/pop servers to check each one with its own sometimes 
complicated password.

A while ago I attempted to report on this mailing list, but my message 
was blocked by some filter. I summarize here:

- first of all I normally read mail stored locally on my machine,
   which is fetched from the imap server by fetchmail.
- I use direct Alpine-to-IMAP only for urgent checks before the
   fetching or to check the spam folders which aren't fetched.

- due to change of gsuite to 2-factor-authentication (2FA), I route my
   gsuite email via another provider and fetch it from there.

- alternatively I can access the gsuite IMAP from Alpine for the
   urgent/spam checks using an "app password" since 2FA does not
   allow usage of the normal interactive password from alpine or fetchmail

Anyhow my suggestion is to make a backup of your .pinerc before you 
migrate to a new version, than compare the backup with the new one after a 
real run with the new one, and check if there are new keywords and read 
the help file.  That's what I do.