[lug] abandoning mutt and saving mail to a useful default folder name

David Kritzberg david.kritzberg at colorado.edu
Wed Mar 5 22:16:57 MST 2008


* Phil Rasch <pjr at ucar.edu> [2008-03-05 21:47:52 -0700]:

> I get a lot of email. I get it from a lot of different people. I
> The problem with this is that mutt requires that I either store the
> username and password for IMAP in a clear text format (in the .muttrc file) or
> type the password in everytime I open mutt to read mail.

Have you made sure you can't work around the clear text problem?  The
folks at comp.mail.mutt are usually good at helping out with this sort
of thing....

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