Pine passfile

[Fleet Teachout]

I just removed Alpine and reverted to Pine. Although the Pine help file
says I can use -passfile .pword in the command line invocation of Pine, I
get the same thing I got with Alpine. Pine opens up a message as follows:

Attchmnt:
Subject :
----- Message Text -----

=========================
To : ".pword"@localhost.localdomain
Cc :
Attchmnt:
Subject :
----- Message Text -----
==========================

This is not helpful. It's one of the reasons I got rid of Alpine, I'd
like to not have to enter my smtp password manually every session. Can I
add a flag to the rpm installation of pine that will fix this?

- fleet -

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Fleet Teachout wrote:

:) I just removed Alpine and reverted to Pine. Although the Pine help
:) file says I can use -passfile .pword in the command line invocation of
:) Pine, I get the same thing I got with Alpine. Pine opens up a message
:) as follows:

Does "pine -h" contain a line that says "-passfile"?

[Fleet Teachout]

Post by Eduardo Chappa
:) I just removed Alpine and reverted to Pine. Although the Pine help
:) file says I can use -passfile .pword in the command line invocation of
:) Pine, I get the same thing I got with Alpine. Pine opens up a message
Does "pine -h" contain a line that says "-passfile"?

No. Only in the help accesible via the main menu.

Is there a way to add the functionality via a flag in RPM?

- fleet -

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Fleet Teachout wrote:

:) > Does "pine -h" contain a line that says "-passfile"?
:)
:) No. Only in the help accesible via the main menu.
:)
:) Is there a way to add the functionality via a flag in RPM?

The lack of the -passfile option in the command line indicates that that
version of Pine was not built with password file support, and therefore
there is nothing that you can do in order to fix this from the perspective
of the RPM. What you need to do is to get an RPM that was buil with such
support.

That can be done by contacting the person that built that RPM.

[Beartooth]

:) > Does "pine -h" contain a line that says "-passfile"? :)
:) No. Only in the help accesible via the main menu. :)
:) Is there a way to add the functionality via a flag in RPM?
The lack of the -passfile option in the command line indicates that that
version of Pine was not built with password file support, and therefore
there is nothing that you can do in order to fix this from the
perspective of the RPM. What you need to do is to get an RPM that was
buil with such support.
That can be done by contacting the person that built that RPM.

The OP doesn't mention a distribution; so this may or may not
help. But fwiw, alpine -h does contain a passfile line here; I'm running
Alpine 2.0 under Fedora 10, installed and kept updated with yum -- iow,
it just works. Something similar may be true with other major varieties
of linux; I can't speak to anything else.