On 4/20/20 5:57 AM, 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.
Your mail server will only require a password for relaying mail. Mail to a local user doesn't require one. Otherwise, no one would be able to send you email. I expect that if you tried to send an email to a non-"ziggo.nl" address, it would fail.
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