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Re: Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes

From Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.mail.pine
Subject Re: Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes
Date 2026-05-31 19:00 +0000
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Message-ID <4111b5d4-d0e8-ee19-3307-67a35197eccc@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Sat, 30 May 2026, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> Thank you for the report. I can see the issue in the code. Would you mind
> trying to see if the issue improves if you start Alpine with the command
>
> alpine -pwdcertdir <fully_qualified_path>

I moved .pwd to dir/.alpine-smime/.pwd and tried alpine with that flag.
It works, it reads .pwd from the new location.

> (from alpine -h

Nice to know there is "alpine -h".

Is really not possible to set the location of this .pwd/ (-pwdcertdir)
and .alpine.pwd (-passfile) in the configuration file? Is it about
security?

Thanks
Rodrigo

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Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> - 2026-05-28 14:27 +0000
  Re: Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> - 2026-05-28 14:52 +0000
  Re: Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2026-05-30 13:12 -0600
    Re: Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> - 2026-05-31 19:00 +0000

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