Pine FAQ

How do I make pine save my password?

Saving your password in Pine places your password in a weakly encrypted file in your home directory. Therefore, we do not recommend that you do this.

On a machine running RedHat Enterprise Linux, enter the following into a terminal:

# touch .pinepw
# chmod 600 .pinepw
# pine

Enter password, enter "Y" when prompted to encrypt and save password to disk.

Your .pinerc file is probably corrupt. Enter the following into a terminal:

# mv .pinerc .pinerc-old
# pine

Pine should be okay now.