I often use SSH to connect to my rented VM space of my ISP (which gets me to a Linux server) and I do use mutt from there to check my mails or even to answer, esp. when I do not have my FreeBSD netbook with full Internet and all mails up.
I do not want to set 'imap_pass=...' and such values in the ~/.muttrc on this VM. Is there any other way to provide such credentials without to key them in on start of mutt, for example based on an environment variable which I could route to the VM through the SSH session like: $ ssh -At www.unixarea.de imap_pass=abc bash --login Thu Jun 13 20:44:51 CEST 2019 ... sh4-5:~$ env | grep imap imap_pass=abc Any other ideas? The SSH access is RSA based, i.e. without any password, and the private key comes from my OpenPGP card. Best solution would be to use this key as well for the IMAP authentication somehow. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ g...@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!
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