`alpine refuses to save password

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Hi Jude,

Thanks for this, seems like we'll have to deal with another pain in the 
rear, if we want to keep using bloody Gmail. I will be looking in to 
forwarding my mail someware else then.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from the Slint console using Alpine

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:59:46 -0500
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: `alpine refuses to save password
> 
> Jude here.
> alpine used to have an inbox-path and an smtp-path variables in .pinerc
> and the format was the path to get to the provider followed by a colon
> followed by login name followed by a colon followed by password all on one
> line.
> it does not show in the help for those variables any longer so perhaps it
> got removed.  In any event you'll need to generate an app-password to use
> alpine with google and I don't know how long that will be possible since
> google may discontinue all app-passwords by june of 2022.  If that's the
> case, you can arrange to have all gmail forwarded to a mail address on a
> domain you own so you can read them locally.
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope this message didn't post twice, for I got a mail delivery system failure notification.
>>
>> I have looked as hard as I know how, and have tried almost everything I could, but no luck in making 'alpine' save my Gmail password.
>>
>> I did "$ touch .pine-pass", had no luck there, "$ touch .alpine.pwd", also no luck.
>>
>> The only thing I can think to do is to re-compile the darn thing. Maybe that'd help.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to fix this issue in Slint, please help?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Brandt Steenkamp
>>
>> Sent from my MacBook Air
>>
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>>
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>>
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