Folks:
When mailx prompts for a password for IMAP or POP, it (correctly)
does not echo the characters when I type them.
However, it is inconvenient to type my password every time, so I put it
in the URL in my .mail file:
| mailbox {
| mailbox-pattern "imaps://vojta:[email protected]";
| }
But then whenever the URL is printed, it shows my password. For example
when I start up mail, it shows:
| "imaps://vojta:[email protected]": 3 messages 1 new 2 unread
and at the end of my mail session, again it prints:
| Held 2 messages in imaps://vojta:[email protected]
Can this be fixed, or at least can the password be provided in a dot-file
somehow other than by putting it in the URL? For example, maybe in
mailbox{} there could be a mailbox-password statement. Or, perhaps
mailx could get the password from my .netrc file (fetchmail does this).
--Paul Vojta, [email protected]
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