I was thinking the exact same problem when I logged into my Pine client just now.
I think the Pine password thing is probably because Peter is running an IMAP session as I am. Frankly I wouldn't trust the M$ .pwd files anyway, likewise M$. On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Michael Lake wrote: > Peter Meyer wrote: > > > > G'Day Troops, > > F Troop replying here. > > > Using PC-Pine on my windows box I can escape the drudgery of typing my > > password every time I open PC-Pine by creating the file pine.pwd in my > > C:\programs\pine directory > > The question is, can I do this on my RH 7.2 box, what do I name the file, > > and where do I put it. > > When I sued to use Pine on my RedHat system I didnt have a passwd for Pine. > In fact I dont think Pine itself has a passwd as its not needed on Linux. > You have to login and get a shell up to start Pine so how can anyone use > Pine without knowing your login passwd. > > Looking thru my old .pinerc config file there is no mention of any password. > Does it ask you for a password? > > PS. I notice you seem to be sending your mail from root. Not a good idea. > Send it when logged in as a normal mortal user :-) > Mike > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
