BUG: Password not caching for same server, but different folders,etc.

I'm running Alpine on linux (ubuntu), and the problem described occurs
in 1.0, 1.10, and the current snapshot (Revision: 1121). In all
cases, the password file is enabled for compile.

Basically, after saving my IMAP password, when I start up alpine, I'm
no longer prompted for a password, but when I (G)oto another folder on
the same server, I get a prompt for the password.

Refusing to put it in (by pressing enter) gives me access to the
folder, anyway, but the password prompt comes up regularly (and in
some cases, in strange situations, probably during a refresh, so I
lose keyboard access in the context, because suddenly the password
prompt has taken it, unexpectedly).

help? patches? suggestions on where it might be in the code?

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, schuyler wrote:

Basically, after saving my IMAP password, when I start up alpine, I'm
no longer prompted for a password, but when I (G)oto another folder on
the same server, I get a prompt for the password.

I do not know how you configure each folder, but in general Alpine will
ask you for a password for each stream (as opposed to a server). A stream
includes the name of the server, the method of connection (ssl, tls,
unencrypted, etc.), the port. If any of these changes between two
configurations, then the stream is different, and so a new connection is
created, which will result in a new password being entered.

Of course, there may be a bug in Alpine, but we can not know unless you
show us data. The basic description you gave is still not enough to
determine that there is a bug.

--
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

On Aug 2, 1:29*pm, Eduardo Chappa <cha...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, schuyler wrote:
>
> Basically, after saving my IMAP password, when I start up alpine, I'm
> no longer prompted for a password, but when I (G)oto another folder on
> the same server, I get a prompt for the password.
>
> I do not know how you configure each folder, but in general Alpine will
> ask you for a password for each stream (as opposed to a server). A stream
> includes the name of the server, the method of connection (ssl, tls,
> unencrypted, etc.), the port. If any of these changes between two
> configurations, then the stream is different, and so a new connection is
> created, which will result in a new password being entered.
>
> Of course, there may be a bug in Alpine, but we can not know unless you
> show us data. The basic description you gave is still not enough to
> determine that there is a bug.
>
> --
> Eduardohttp://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

The stream issue was it. Thanks!