First, to give credit where it’s due, I started here. That said, here’s how I store and access account passwords in mutt on Linux.
## -- Passwords: encrypted by gpg --------------------------------------------------------------
source “/bin/gpg -d ~/.keychain/mutt.password.neopost.gpg 2>/dev/null |”
The source line in gpg tells mutt to decrypt a file at startup. The file .keychain/mutt… contains two mutt configuration lines:
set imap_pass = "<my_email_password>" set smtp_pass = "<my_email_password>"
I created it as follows:
$ cat <<EOF | gpg -r <my_gpg_id> ~/.keychain/mutt.password.neopost.gpg set imap_pass = "<my_email_password>" set smtp_pass = "<my_email_password>" EOF $
Gpg knows how to decrypt this file and retrieve the plain text configuration. Note well that I used a “Here” document to create the file. This keeps mail password out of the filesystem. Simple stuff, at mutt startup the first time I use it, gpg-agent asks for my gpg key and unlocks the configuration snippet.