Re: Saving passwords in alpine

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

I think this is great. And very useful for things like Gmail using
application-specific passwords.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:43 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> I would like to apply the following patch to alpine.  Many sites
> describing it assume that it was built this way.  It won't affect anyone
> unless they manually create the file first anyway.
>
> Any objections?
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/mail/alpine/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.36
> diff -u -r1.36 Makefile
> --- Makefile    18 Aug 2015 07:31:11 -0000      1.36
> +++ Makefile    24 Oct 2015 10:42:12 -0000
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  #
>
>  DISTNAME=      alpine-2.11
> -PKGREVISION=   3
> +PKGREVISION=   4
>  CATEGORIES=    mail
>  MASTER_SITES=  http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/src/
>  EXTRACT_SUFX=  .tar.xz
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-ssl-lib-dir=${SSLBASE}/lib
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-system-pinerc=${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/pine.conf
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-system-fixed-pinerc=${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/pine.conf.fixed
> +CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-passfile=.pine-passfile
>  # disabled, for Web Alpine Support
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --without-tcl
>
>
> --
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> http://www.NetBSD.org/ IM:darcy%Vex.Net@localhost



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