Hi Patrick,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:10:18PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net>:
> > also sprach Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@state-of-mind.de> [2012.08.16.2044 
> > +0200]:
> > >         Putting passwords in configs isn't something I like, so
> > >         I pull them from the Gnome keyring:
> > 
> > Not a bad idea, but now an attacker with access to the filesystem
> > doesn't have to run 'cat ~/.muttrc' but 'gnome-keyring-query get mutt' 
> > instead.
> 
> If mutt can use a TLS client certificate, you can use that to auth against
> Dovecot.

Do you have a running setup that can use password and cert for one user?
(e.g. via password for the webmail, and certificate for the MUA).

Thanks, Andre

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