Hi
I'm using dovecot on a LAN server. I sometimes read mail from the server itself locally with mutt and sometimes remotely with mutt or mozilla .
I would like to avoid typing my password whenever necessary but without writing a plain-text equivalent copy of it locally.
It feels quite silly to have to type the password locally becase the imapd does not know that the process is indeed a process of the user tzafrir. It has all the information it neeeds to check that.
wu-imapd has something called "pre-authentication": the imapd is run by the user unpriviliged to access mail in the user's home directory. As a bonus this works quite nicely with ssh public key authentication. I know that at least mutt and pine support running a custom command for creating an imap connection. But then again, wu-imapd is built quite, well, differently.
Any ideas?
-- Tzafrir