Re: mutt and plaintext passwords : muttrc encryption ?

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, July 28 at 10:13 PM, quoth Michele Martone:
>ehm. one more thing.
>how would you deal with the MTA with the wrapper-based solution ?

Personally? I'd compile mutt with smtp support and be done with it.

>i know only of :
>
>using nbsmtp, in a dangerous way:
>        set sendmail="nbsmtp -P password ..."
>
>using ssmtp , in a dangerous way:
>        set sendmail="ssmtp -ap password ..."

Well, yes, those are the most obvious.

If you're game for a temp file, you could use gpg (with gpg-agent) to 
quickly decrypt a version of their config file for use, and then 
delete it... but that'll require an MTA wrapper too (this is as 
complex and undesirable a solution as they get, eh?). For example:

     #!/bin/sh
     gpg --decrypt ~/.msmtprc.gpg -o ~/.msmtprc
     msmtp "$@"
     retval=$?
     rm ~/.msmtprc
     exit $retval

Nothing else leaps to mind.

~Kyle
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