On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 08:25 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:57:31 +0200 AV <volov...@ziggo.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I have been a longtime user of mutt but switched to
> > evolution and/of geary to have less configuration
> > hassle.
> > Yesterday I had an hour to spare so I decided to
> > have a look at the Alpine email client.
> > I installed and did a minimal config only adding
> > imap, smtp and sender. No password.
> > Out of curiosity I tried to send myself an email
> > (to 'volov...@ziggo.nl') expecting Alpine to ask
> > for my password. To my surprise it looked like
> > the mail got sent without password. Indeed a few
> > minutes later I received it in evolution.
> > Evolution is my default email client on this laptop.
> > 
> > Could Alpine have used the password encoded by
> > evolution? I can't find any comprehensive
> > documentation on the working of alpine and
> > don't feel like digging into alpine internals
> > because I am not going to use it.
> > Maybe somebody with alpine knowledge can explain.
> > 
> 
> What does the mail header say?
> 
> Guesses: do you have postfix or sendmail installed? I suspect you do
> and alpine is simply using that. It probably never even needed to go
> through the ziggo.nl server to send mail. Look at the mail header.

No I do not have postfix or sendmail installed and the mail
definitely went through the Ziggo server. The first thing I
checked were the headers. To be 200% sure I checked mail
on a second pc that is in no way connected to the first.

AV
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