Re: Removing /notls makes me enter password changing mailboxes?

Steve Hubert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Organization Univ of Washington; Computing and Communications; Seattle
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Matt Ackeret wrote:

>
> Based upon the discussion the other day (maybe it was on the alpine list?),
> I removed /notls from my server config string.
>
> One difference is that I notice that I have to type in my password the
> first time I go to a new mailbox in a pine session..
>
> Is that expected behavior?  Remember, for other unrelated reasons, I'm
> still on 4.62, so if this was fixed in a later version, just say so and I'll
> shut up about it.

Yes, that's normal. Pine/Alpine consider the secure and insecure 
connections to be two separate connections for the purpose of reusing the 
password. The reason is so that you won't connect securely to a host and 
then later inadverdently connect insecurely with your password supplied 
automatically. There is a bit of overkill to prevent that but not too 
much. The second login should then not need to ask you.

Steve
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