providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

[Matthias Apitz]

On Friday, 29 May 2020 19:28:26 CEST, Ian Zimmerman <itz at very.loosely.org> 
wrote:
> On 2020-05-29 07:33, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
>> Has someone an idea how could I provide to the remote mutt session the
>> IMAP credentials stored on my local laptop?
> 
> If you can talk to the admin of the remote host, you can put the
> credentials into some Unix environment variables on the laptop and make
> ssh lob them over (this is controlled by AcceptEnv, SendEnv and SetEnv
> in ssh configuration, including the sshd on the remote and that's what
> you need the admin's help for). Then in the remote .muttrc at the place
> where you need the credentials use a `printenv FOO` construct.
> 
> I have done something like this but since then my program of radical
> simplicity has made some progress :-)
> 

Thanks for the idea. I made some test and the remote sshd let pass through 
the TERM env var. So could add to it the IMAP pw and use it in the remote 
.profile to cut it again in two values for TERM and pw.

Thanks.

matthias




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