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

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote:
> * Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> [2020-02-13 15:57]:
> > 	source "gpg -d ~/.mutt/.mutt-account-stuff.gpg |"
> 
> does this yield a filename - or a complete setup?

.mutt-account-stuff.gpg is a .muttrc fragment.  It has various
account-hook and folder-hook and send-hook statements in it to set the
user names, imap passwords, smtp_url, and so on.

> 
> > My gpg agent times out on files after 10 minutes.
> 
> which version?

gpg-agent (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.2.17
 
> maybe you need a longer timeout? -> gpg-agent --pinentry-timeout n

That would make the problem occur less frequently, for sure, but it
wouldn't make it go away.  What I find strange is that it didn't used
to happen, which makes me think that the older versions pulled all
these things into memory at once at initialization and the later
versions read the options on the fly.  But this is rank speculation.

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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