[Dovecot] Passwordless auth?

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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:10:01PM -0700,
   Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> I'd love to hear about any other ways people have thought about
> to do this.  Any ideas?

Are you familiar with the mutt(1) MUA? I use it with a:
    set tunnel="MAILDIR=~/Mail/ /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap"
So it speaks IMAP, but to its own /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap process, 
not through a network socket.

Maybe you could adapt this idea in some way.
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