[Alpine-info] Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password.

[Damion Yates via Alpine-info]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:


> On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>> Sometimes, Alpine forgets the password for one of the accounts, that

>> should have been saved weeks or months ago. Like this morning,

>> computer resumes from hibernation and it asks for the password of one

>> account. Ctrl-C, asks again and again, maybe a dozen times.

>

> for some reason authentication failed once. I cannot say why, it might

> have been an error in Alpine, as well as it might have been an error

> at the server side. This failure Alpine forget the password and it

> asks you for it again.  What is surprising me is that ^C does nothing.

> Can you confirm this with me?  That should not be the case. I realize

> that the authentication flow in Alpine is not right, but this makes no

> sense either.

>

> If your Alpine has debug symbols you can start another copy of Alpine

> under gdb and attach to the other version of Alpine. This makes you

> gain control on the running version and step through the process to

> see where it is failing.


I've noticed that if anything goes wrong with auth then alpine just goes
into a loop where it doesn't really cope with reconnecting.  I need to
cancel and sometimes quit alpine and then start afresh for it to
properly attempt to reconnect with its stored credentials.

^C and using "y" to ask it to try again just rapidly repeats.  This
makes it seem to have lost credentials, but it's clearly able to cope if
I reconnect.

I didn't bother reporting this as it's trivial to work around.

  Best wishes,

  - Damion