https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847989 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847989#c2 --- Comment #2 from Craig Arno <craig@arno.com> 2013-11-04 18:33:18 UTC --- Thank you for your information and guidance. This was very valuable to me. I verified a (touch ~/.pinepw) followed by telling alpine to save the outgoing SMTP password does retain the SMTP password between alpine invocations on my OpenSUSE 12.2 x64 installation. The SMTP password is only entered once if it is allowed to save. This is the desired behavior I hoped to find. I also checked ~/.pinepw contents for the security concern you brought up. The password is encrypted and therefore secure enough for my tiny installation in the sense that it isn't plain text. Here is what I see (slightly modified for security reasons to allow posting here) % cat ~/.pinepw dTD)u[ ?2s]E'yhXx_RB1&oUVH:*w jP=~x&laT8(u$zdUcJ=-{pZ@3"g\jY?4Nbx. ? 3!uft[N>-"kQDR6&s.BXm I originally started with Postfix local SMTP transport as you suggest and ran into not being able to prevent some very determined spammers from forwarding / reflecting their material through my Postfix installation. So I now have outgoing SMTP blocked with iptables and unconfigured in Postfix. In order to use Postfix as you suggest for SMTP transport I need to find a clear simple procedure for setting up Postfix which will allow me to prevent SPAMmers from abusing my installation. I need to be sure my installation is not contributing to the SPAM problem we all face. My installation is small. Thank you again for your valuable information and assistance. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.