On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 08:25 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:57:31 +0200 AV <volovics@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have been a longtime user of mutt but switched to > > evolution and/of geary to have less configuration > > hassle. > > Yesterday I had an hour to spare so I decided to > > have a look at the Alpine email client. > > I installed and did a minimal config only adding > > imap, smtp and sender. No password. > > Out of curiosity I tried to send myself an email > > (to 'volovics@xxxxxxxx') expecting Alpine to ask > > for my password. To my surprise it looked like > > the mail got sent without password. Indeed a few > > minutes later I received it in evolution. > > Evolution is my default email client on this laptop. > > > > Could Alpine have used the password encoded by > > evolution? I can't find any comprehensive > > documentation on the working of alpine and > > don't feel like digging into alpine internals > > because I am not going to use it. > > Maybe somebody with alpine knowledge can explain. > > > > What does the mail header say? > > Guesses: do you have postfix or sendmail installed? I suspect you do > and alpine is simply using that. It probably never even needed to go > through the ziggo.nl server to send mail. Look at the mail header. No I do not have postfix or sendmail installed and the mail definitely went through the Ziggo server. The first thing I checked were the headers. To be 200% sure I checked mail on a second pc that is in no way connected to the first. AV _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
