Local access to IMAP mailboxes

[Larry Rosenman]

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 at dovecot.org on behalf of vas at 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.
    
    
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    Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
    2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/