{"id":227,"date":"2017-09-08T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-09-08T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:20:27","slug":"mutt-account-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Mutt account passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, to give credit where it’s due, I started here.<\/a> That said, here’s how I store and access account passwords in mutt on Linux.<\/p>\n

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## -- Passwords: encrypted by gpg --------------------------------------------------------------<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
source “\/bin\/gpg -d ~\/.keychain\/mutt.password.neopost.gpg 2>\/dev\/null |”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The source line in gpg tells mutt to decrypt a file at startup. The file .keychain\/mutt… contains two mutt configuration lines:<\/p>\n
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set imap_pass = \"<my_email_password><\/strong>\"\r\nset smtp_pass = \"<my_email_password><\/strong>\"<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I created it as follows:<\/p>\n
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$ cat <<EOF | gpg -r <my_gpg_id><\/strong> ~\/.keychain\/mutt.password.neopost.gpg\r\nset imap_pass = \"<my_email_password><\/strong>\"\r\nset smtp_pass = \"<my_email_password><\/strong>\"\r\nEOF\r\n$<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n
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