On 06/13/2019 2:19 pm, Ben Boeckel wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 20:56:33 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
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
I don't think there's any mechanism in mutt. You might be able to have
`mutt -F <(genmuttrc)` dump it out. It may also be worth just doing
`set
imap_pass=...` inside mutt once it has started.
However, what's your threat model that having it in the file is not OK
but the environment is OK? `/proc/foo/environ` is just as readable on
Linux as muttrc is likely to be.
How are you getting your sendmail password over in order to send email?
Or is it trusted because it's coming from the ISP's VM?
--Ben
I do the following trick:
source "gpg -q --textmode -d ~/.neomutt/passwords.gpg |"
where the passwords.gpg file sets my_ vars for all my
passwords.
Just an idea.
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