On Sat, 28 Oct 2017, Kim Vandry vandry-at-TZoNE.ORG |mairix| wrote:
On 2017-10-04 21:43, Stephen Isard wrote:
Hello,
It is great to be able to index imap folders in mairix. However, I am very
uncomfortable with the idea of storing a password in clear text in the
.mairixrc file. The imap server that I use lets me connect without a
password using a kerberos ticket and gssapi from (al)pine and heirloom
mailx. Could mairix do the same? At first glance, it doesn't look as if it
would be too difficult to incorporate or adapt the code from the mailx
imap_gssapi.c file.
Hi Stephen,
It's probably not difficult, but I haven't got an IMAP server with Kerberos
support or a Kerberos client to test it with, so I would have some difficulty
implementing it.
I see, ok, too bad.
I understand the concern about putting a plaintext password into the
.mairixrc file and I wouldn't do that myself: I use the imap_pipe directive
to launch the IMAP server as a subprocess (over an SSH connection,
optionally), in which mode it doesn't ask for a password.
I noticed the imap_pipe directive in the mairixrc man page, but I didn't know
how to use it. Could you give an example of "a shell command that can be used
to connect to the IMAP server and talk to it over UNIX pipes"? (Maybe even put
an example in the man page?).
Thanks,
Stephen Isard
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