On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 14:57 +0200, AV 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. A lot depends on whether the mail relay you connect to actually requires a password. Nowadays most do, but it's not an inherent requirement and so some may not. Aside from that, Evolution doesn't store passwords itself. It uses the Gnome framework for that (IIRC it's called Gnome Online Accounts but I'm not a Gnome user myself), so presumably Alpine is doing the same thing. poc _______________________________________________ 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
