providing imap_pass but not from ~/.muttrc

[Cameron Simpson]

On 14Jun2019 05:48, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
>Can mutt read gnome-key-ring?  If so, you maybe could use secret-tool
>with the right parameters once.

Well, it can read the output of a shell command, so something could be 
arranged. However, I believe Mattias wants to use credentials from a 
local source and get them to a mutt run on a remote machine.

Can the gnome-key-ring socket be usefully forwarded over the ssh connect 
so that the remote mutt can access it? You can forward UNIX domain 
sockets over an ssh connection, the trick is what needs to be said on 
the far end to get the remote secret-tool to access the forwarded 
socket. An environment variable presumably.

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