<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">With the configuration people had been using for alpine, users now open alpine to a blank folder with no mail in it, I've told them to use the c key to change directory and then they see a new "Gmail" folder, they can now go there to find there mail, one man found hundreds of emails he didn't know existed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The steps required to remove the encryption key from alpine are too involved for many of the blind users who have been depending upon alpine to access email. Most of those I correspond with have moved on to mutt which doesn't have this problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have no idea how anyone could access email on a person's computer and access third parties information in the email delivered to a person. I also have no idea how an application master password prevents this, and I'm positive the people I help who know much less about computers than I do know even less about this. All they want is a way to read their email easily. They could use Thunderbird to access their email and other person's email would be on their computer, I don't see how this is any different than the emails downloaded by alpine. Thunderbird doesn't use an application master password, the only thing that has a password is the person's email accounts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe I don't understand these things because I'm not a hacker - not implying that anyone who does understand them is a hacker - or someone with better training than myself. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Carlos, maybe you are making alpine for ultimate email security, and for some users, I can see that being a wonderful thing, but there is a group dependent on the simple and effective way alpine used to work. They've been using alpine for years and they absolutely love it, but it's suddenly become too complicated for them to use because of this master password problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">About the new /Gmail folder when they are accessing email, is there a new .pinerc template available for them to use with gmail? I'll gladly tell them about this - and I will use it myself because if one could be produced it will eliminate the step where I was using alpine and seeing i had zero mail only to later discover that gmail had changed it's settings and that I (and others) had to press c to change folders and there was a new Gmail folder shown and now we have to go there to see our mail. Also some people are reporting that if they delete old mail, it doesn't get deleted by using alpine. I found this out myself with one person who trusts me and I accessed his gmail account using his .pinerc file with alpine and deleted hundreds of emails and then I used the <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> web page and used his regular - not appliction specific password and the emails that I deleted were all still there, hundreds of them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I believe the .pinerc file they're all using is a descendant of the one posted by the non abandoned Vinux for the blind Linux distribution from the UK. The best distro for accessibility right now is slint based on slackware. It also comes preconfigured with emacspeak which is a huge help because most people - including myself can never get emacspeak configured correctly in Debian.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:59 AM Eduardo Chappa <<a href="mailto:alpine.chappa@yandex.com">alpine.chappa@yandex.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> One of the problems they are having is with Gmail, they've managed to <br>
> get an application specific password, and can use alpine by using an old <br>
> version which does not have the master password, but Google has changed <br>
> the way email is displayed, what used to be the default was the INBOX of <br>
> their email, but now they have to change folders to one labeled Gmail <br>
> and inside there they have to select the folder with the new email. <br>
<br>
I am having a hard time understanding this. This seems like a <br>
configuration issue, not a Gmail issue. Are these people reading email by <br>
accessing it through a collection list? or do they read their email by <br>
configuring the inbox-path? (and maybe separately the collection list). If <br>
you need to skip [Gmail], add it to the collection list configuration.<br>
<br>
> It seems that it would be possible when configuring alpine to have a <br>
> switch much like the one that creates the ability to use the pinepass <br>
> file.<br>
<br>
I agree with you. This is not a technological requirement. It is a choice. <br>
Some people like me choose to make it mandatory, some people choose to use <br>
mutt instead, and some people choose to remove the password from the <br>
encryption key. We can all coexist in this world and make our choices. My <br>
choice does not force the choice of other people. I hope people that <br>
disagree with me choose to remove the password for the encryption key, not <br>
go to mutt, but that is their choice. After all removing the password from <br>
the encryption key will give them the experience they are looking for, and <br>
if they do not wish to do that, well, that is their choice too.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Eduardo</blockquote></div></div>