providing imap_pass but not from ~/.muttrc

[Jude DaShiell]

Can mutt read gnome-key-ring?  If so, you maybe could use secret-tool
with the right parameters once.

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:56:33
> From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: providing imap_pass but not from ~/.muttrc
>
>
> I often use SSH to connect to my rented VM space of my ISP (which gets me to a
> Linux server) and I do use mutt from there to check my mails or even to
> answer, esp. when I do not have my FreeBSD netbook with full Internet and all
> mails up.
>
> I do not want to set 'imap_pass=...' and such values in the ~/.muttrc on
> this VM. Is there any other way to provide such credentials without to
> key them in on start of mutt, for example based on an environment
> variable which I could route to the VM through the SSH session like:
>
> $ ssh -At www.unixarea.de imap_pass=abc bash --login
> Thu Jun 13 20:44:51 CEST 2019
> ...
> sh4-5:~$ env | grep imap
> imap_pass=abc
>
> Any other ideas? The SSH access is RSA based, i.e. without any password,
> and the private key comes from my OpenPGP card. Best solution would be to
> use this key as well for the IMAP authentication somehow.
>
> Thanks
>
> 	matthias
>
>

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