providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

[Alexander Dahl]

Hello Matthias,

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:33:41AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I often use mutt on some remote Linux host of my ISP about which I do
> not have control as root, just a SSH login is provided. Due to this I do
> not want to store the IMAP password in ~/.muttrc or where ever there in
> plain text.

Good.

> Has someone an idea how could I provide to the remote mutt session the
> IMAP credentials stored on my local laptop? And no, I do not want to use
> IMAP through the SSH tunnel, i.e. run mutt on my laptop, because in the
> scenario described above the laptop is inside my company and central
> managed network and I can not use any normal sendmail MX chain, all mail
> must be passed through a central host (guess, what type of MX this runs
> :-) )

What I do, seriously: start mutt in 'screen', type in the IMAP
password interactively every morning, leave mutt open, close it in the
evening.

Not quite automatic, but maybe you can copy and paste the password to
the interactive input from a password manager like 'pass' from your
laptop?

Greets
Alex

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