[Re-alpine-devel] encryption of outgoing email

[Jacob W. <jac...@fa...>]

Recently, following a software update on my Macintosh 10.7.5, Alpine has begun to prompt me for a password when I send email. After ctrl X, if I merely hit Y at the confirmation, it tells me it doesn't have "a certificate" for the email address. I have to hit E for Encrypt. Then it sometimes prompts me for the password of the smtp server. Apparently, if I've recently typed in a password for some other recipient, it doesn't demand the password again.

I am running ALPINE 2.01(1266). I have not recently updated Alpine nor had I changed my config file. Thus, this appears to be some interaction between the Mac OS and Alpine? Or with the network or firewall of the organization that provides the internet access?

Does anyone have any insights?

Thanks

Jacob A. Wegelin
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Virginia Commonwealth University
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