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services:e-mail_service:e-mail_clients_setup [2019/02/01 11:28] giunta [ALPINE USERS on ssh.sissa.it] |
services:e-mail_service:e-mail_clients_setup [2021/12/09 12:39] giunta removed |
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- | ===== ALPINE USERS on ssh.sissa.it ===== | + | ===== ALPINE USERS ===== |
Alpine will be forced to read e-mail using IMAP. So the first time alpine will ask you //**your SISSA username**// and //**your SISSA password**// and if you wish to "Preserve password on DISK for next login?" answer "**Y**" if you want to save it (encrypted) so you will not have to enter your password anymore using Alpine. Your password, encrypted, will be put in the file **.alpine.passfile** in your home directory. | Alpine will be forced to read e-mail using IMAP. So the first time alpine will ask you //**your SISSA username**// and //**your SISSA password**// and if you wish to "Preserve password on DISK for next login?" answer "**Y**" if you want to save it (encrypted) so you will not have to enter your password anymore using Alpine. Your password, encrypted, will be put in the file **.alpine.passfile** in your home directory. | ||
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Since [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/alpine.html|Alpine 2.10]], a personal SMIME certificate is used to [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/encryptpwd.html|encrypt the password file]]. Alpine will ask the user to create a ''master password'', which will unlock access to the password file in future access during the same Alpine session. | Since [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/alpine.html|Alpine 2.10]], a personal SMIME certificate is used to [[http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/info/encryptpwd.html|encrypt the password file]]. Alpine will ask the user to create a ''master password'', which will unlock access to the password file in future access during the same Alpine session. | ||
- | To avoid being asked to enter the ''master password'' every time you start Alpine, you can create a SMIME certificate without any private key's password: | + | To avoid being asked to enter the ''master password'' every time you start Alpine, while not recommended, you can create a SMIME certificate //without// any private key's password: |
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- | <note warning>Using a SMIME certificate without private key's password</note> | + | |
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