== Luis Mochan wrote on Thu 16.Aug'12 at 11:50:24 -0500 == > I used to have my password in the .muttrc file; bad mistake (I found > out after mailing my rc file to this list). After introducing it > manually for awhile, I wrote it in a small file with restricted > permissions (set imap_pass='my_password') which I source > from the rc file (source ~/my/password/file). The password file is > onle readable and writable by me. This setup is convenient, as I don't > have to type my password every session, though that is not a big > inconvenience. Would this be considered unsafe? > Regards, > Luis
any file with a password in it is potentially exploitable. as others have sugessted there a number of ways of getting around the problem. Exactly one of the reason why I don't use IMAP to read mail using mutt locally
