Offlineimap: Reading Mutt password files

linuxbawks · 02-03-2014, 03:27 PM

I was wondering if there was a straightforward way to translate my Mutt password files for use with Offlineimap?

Mutt uses password files defined using custom Bash variables as in:

Code:

my_user = 'passwordstring'

Offlineimap uses various other formats to invoke password/user authentication data, none of which are compatible with the native Mutt approach

linuxbawks · 02-05-2014, 08:28 AM

No there is not. You have to create yet another Python script as follows:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re

def pwd(account):
	stream = open("text file containing data", "r")
	account = '(.*)' + account + '(.*)'

	for line in stream:
		if re.match(str(account), line):
			return line.strip().split(" = ")[1][1:-1]

Then call the function pwd('xxx') internally via offlineimaprc via passeval.