[neomutt-users] Change to authentication in recent versions?

Andrew Sullivan ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
Thu Feb 13 15:40:39 CET 2020


Hi,

I suspect I just need a clue-stick pointer.

I've been a mutt user since the 1990s and really appreciate the
ongoing development of neomutt.

A recent laptop refresh resulted in me changing neomutt versions to
NeoMutt 20191207.  This is a MacBook I used previously, and neomutt is
installed via homebrew.  None of the compile options has changed, so
I'm assuming there's some code change that I'm not understanding.

I use two different accounts on two different servers.  I have the
passphrases saved in a gpg-encrypted file.  This is sourced in the
main .muttrc this way:

	source "gpg -d ~/.mutt/.mutt-account-stuff.gpg |"

My gpg agent times out on files after 10 minutes.  It used to be that,
once I had decrypted the file and connected to one of the accounts, I
could connect to the other too.  It appears now, however, that if I
have connected to one account for more than 10 minutes, and try to
change accounts, I have to enter the passphrase.  This is difficult,
because these passphrases are terribly long random strings :)

I figure there's probably something I need to understand in recent
changes to get this working the way they used to, and I'm wondering
whether there are pointers to where I should look in the docs.

Thanks, and thanks for the great work.

A

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Andrew Sullivan
ajs at anvilwalrusden.com


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