Richard, I use GnuPG to encrypt/decrypt my passwords for mutt. For each imap account, I create a little text file that contains the appropriate password, and encrypt that file using my public key. Then I use command substitution to set imap_pass in muttrc. For example,
set my_imap_un=hesla set my_imap_pw=`gpg2 -d --batch ~/.mutt/.imap_pw.gpg` account-hook imap://my.imap.server:143 set imap_user=$my_imap_un account-hook imap://my.imap.server:143 set imap_pass=$my_imap_pw (You do need the "--batch", to prevent the passphrase prompt.) If the password contains a special character, just backslash escape it, then enclose the whole password in single quotes. For example, if your password were 45B;abcd then the text file (before encryption) should contain the single line '45B\;abcd' (including the single quotes). This works fine with my setup. BTW, I use gpg-agent to avoid having to key in my passphrase multiple times per day. Regards, -- Todd Hesla On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:24:49PM +0200, Ђорђе Тодоровић wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:24:49 +0200 > To: Richard <r...@linux-m68k.org>, mutt-users@mutt.org > From: Ђорђе Тодоровић <postmanmi...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: imap_pass password management > > On Wed, 18 May 2011, Ђорђе Тодоровић wrote: > > >On Wed, 18 May 2011, Richard wrote: > > > >>On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:43:05PM +0200, Ђорђе Тодоровић wrote: > >> > >>>Is it possible to have my imap_pass set dynamicaly to be an output of some > >>>CLI password > >>>management program (like pwsafe)? Exaple: > >>> > >>>imap_pass = "echo -n $(pwsafe -p ACCOUNT_NAME -e -q | tail -n 1) |" > >> > >>does that work? > >> > >>imap_pass = `echo -n $(pwsafe -p ACCOUNT_NAME -e -q | tail -n 1) ` > >> > > > >That works fine, thank you. Also I found this link: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg36375.html > > > > I just noticed that this example doesn't work with passwords that contain > certain special characters (#"'). Anyone know how to sanitize input so mutt > can > read passwords from stdin? > > If a password contains "#", mutt reads an empty string. > If a password contains quotes, imap_pass gets a password + entire muttrc file > below a "set imap_pass..." field. > > -- > . O . | Djordje Todorovic [aceofknaves at G_M_A_I_L .com] | O . O > . . O | GPG-Key: 2048R/1E133339 (http://pgp.mit.edu) | . O O > O O O | BFF2 1C7F A70D ECCD FA8F C946 DB32 B498 1E13 3339 | . O .
