On 4/20/20 5:57 AM, AV 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.
Your mail server will only require a password for relaying mail. Mail
to a local user doesn't require one. Otherwise, no one would be able to
send you email. I expect that if you tried to send an email to a
non-"ziggo.nl" address, it would fail.
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