Re: Prompt for, and remember, a password?

[Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:46:44PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> Generally? No. Mutt doesn't do generic password management for 
> third-party applications; and even if it did, there's no sufficiently 
> generic method of providing the password to whatever command you 
> happen to be running.

I guess all I really need would be for mutt to have an environment variable (or 
some such thing) that I 
could use to pass the password on the command line:

macro index G "!inc -user pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -pass $MYPASSWORD\n"

Is that do-able?

Thanks,
-pd