Re: Local access to IMAP mailboxes

What I do is keep my passwords in a file encrypted by GPG and have mutt do: source "gpg -q --textmode -d ~/.neomutt/passwords.gpg |"

that way they're not readable except by use of a passworded GPG key.

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On 9/27/18, 9:50 AM, "dovecot on behalf of Victor Sudakov" <dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org on behalf of vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

Thomas Leuxner wrote:
> 
> > > >> However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with Mutt (e.g.
> > > >> append and delete mails).
> 
> Why not use Mutt's IMAP capabilities and keep the indexes nice and clean?

Maybe the only reason is that I don't want to bother with
authentication and don't want to keep my password in muttrc.

Anyway, my mail is sorted and delivered to ~/Mail/* by procmail, so
the mboxes will be touched by a process outside of dovecot.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/