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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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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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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
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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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