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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: PC pine password saving feature
From:       Barry Landy <bl10 () cus ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1994-01-25 12:12:45
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On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, John Stumbles wrote:

> Anyway, yesterday Pine suddenly asks me if I'd like the password saved on
> disk. I don't know what I did to make it do so - I had just reduced my
> folder-collections from 2 to 1 which was IMAP-accessed, so maybe that was
> it. 
........................................
> 
> What i'd like to know is (1) how one can intentionally get Pine to do 
> this, and (2) how I can get Unix Pine to do the same?
> 
> John Stumbles                                        j.d.stumbles@reading.ac.uk
> Reading University                                                  0734 318435
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> 

PC-PINE Will do this if there is a file PINE.SIG in \PINE; this contains 
the encrypted PW; if this is not accepted by the remote Unix, then PINE 
will request the PW and ask if you want to store it.

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