On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 14:57 +0200, AV wrote: > > > > 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. It does. > > 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. I suspected something like that but don't know a simple way to check it. I had hoped that somebody with detailed knowledge of Alpine on Fedora could confirm it. 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
