Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU!tobeye From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: AMS supplement Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 89 20:40:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Soon, we will be switching all of our mail from the /usr/spool/mail on our machines to individual mail on a mail host. Using messages, I know I can set a /usr/andrew/etc/AndrewSetup parameter to specify what program AMS should use in order to read mail. I will be writing that program soon. So far, no problems. However, the program I will be writing will want to ask the user for a password that is required by the mail machine. Is there any way to make messages prompt the user for a password, and give that password to the read-mail program? The only other alternative I see is to have a .readmailrc file in their home directory with their password in it (or some such scheme). Any ideas or suggestions how I might go about doing this? - Anthony Edwards