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services:e-mail_service:e-mail_clients_setup [2019/02/01 11:57]
giunta [ALPINE USERS on ssh.sissa.it]
services:e-mail_service:e-mail_clients_setup [2021/12/09 12:39]
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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, while not recommended,​ 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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