providing imap_pass but not from ~/.muttrc

[Cameron Simpson]

On 13Jun2019 17:10, Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>On 06/13/2019 4:52 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>On 13Jun2019 14:26, Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>>>I do the following trick:
>>>source "gpg -q --textmode -d ~/.neomutt/passwords.gpg  |"
>>>
>>>where the passwords.gpg file sets my_ vars for all my
>>>passwords.
>>
>>Doesn't that require interaction on each mutt startup? I appreciate
>>that this has the password nicely encrypted when idle and doesn't
>>display them on the command line or in environment variables.
>>
>[snip]
>
>I have gpg-agent running so the key is available.  I have some 
>switch-identity stuff in the rest of my
>(neo)mutt rc files to switch between the identities.

Ah, I wondered. My own gpg-agent timeout is short enough that I'd be 
prompted all the time :-(

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>