* Andre Klärner <kan...@ak-online.be>:
> 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).

I have to apologize! Postfix can do that for sender, and looking at dovecots
SSL params I assumed it can do that too, but reading through the docs
<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase> it seems I was wrong.

But IF we really wanted that Timo would probably implement it. I'd contribute
€ 250.-.

p@rick

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