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Re: Mutt Next Generation



On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:03:12 +0100, David Schweikert said:

> On our mail-server we use the same password as the Unix account for SMTP
> AUTH, since we don't want to manage two different password databases

I guessed that somehow.  It is a bad security practice, but you
probably known that.  

> Having the external program prompt for the password and refresh the
> screen would still have the problem that the password must be asked
> every time, whereas mutt could cache it (like PGP).

No problem, run gpg-agent instead of using pinentry directly.  It will
do the caching for you.

  Werner