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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

#3249 — Location of Certificate for Encripting Passes

Hallo!

I just compiled alpine, with following flags in configuration:

...
--with-smime-public-cert-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/public \
--with-smime-private-key-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/private \
--with-smime-cacert-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/ca \
--with-passfile=dir/.alpine.pwd \
...

It created
dir/.alpine.pwd
dir/.alpine-smime/ca
dir/.alpine-smime/private
dir/.alpine-smime/public

But not: dir/.alpine-smime/.pwd/

It created in the normal location:

~/.alpine-smime/.pwd/MasterPassword.key
~/.alpine-smime/.pwd/MasterPassword.crt

Is there a flag to config in order that also this .pwd file be in
dir/.alpine-smime/.pwd ???

Thanks
Rodrigo

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#3250

I have another question. (Without forgetting the old)

I see in .pinerc that I an set there the locations of

smime-public-cert-directory=
smime-private-key-directory=
smime-cacert-directory=

Is there a way to set there the location of

passfile
MasterPassword.crt
MasterPassword.key

Then I do not need to compile and can use the FreeBSD package ...

Thanks a lot
Rodrigo

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#3251

On Thu, 28 May 2026, Roderick wrote:

>
> Hallo!
>
> I just compiled alpine, with following flags in configuration:
>
> ...
> --with-smime-public-cert-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/public \
> --with-smime-private-key-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/private \
> --with-smime-cacert-directory=dir/.alpine-smime/ca \
> --with-passfile=dir/.alpine.pwd \
> ...
>
> It created
> dir/.alpine.pwd
> dir/.alpine-smime/ca
> dir/.alpine-smime/private
> dir/.alpine-smime/public
>
> But not: dir/.alpine-smime/.pwd/
>
> It created in the normal location:
>
> ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd/MasterPassword.key
> ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd/MasterPassword.crt
>
> Is there a flag to config in order that also this .pwd file be in
> dir/.alpine-smime/.pwd ???

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>

(from alpine -h
  -pwdcertdir <fully_qualified_path>	Set the directory to store a 
personal key and certificate to encrypt and decrypt your 
password file.)


-- 
Eduardo
https://alpineapp.email (web)
http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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#3252

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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