providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

[Felix Finch]

On 20200529, Ian Zimmerman 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 :-)

Don't environment variables show up in /proc and ps?

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