Create crypto with GPG for Mutt
Hi,
In this article, i mention about GPG crytography in order to encrypt mail password for using in mutt. GPG is a general crytography tool.
First of all, i run GPG with username, email and any comment.
gpg --gen-key
This command generates a key with some identical informations. Then, a file which contains mail passwords is created:
nano ~/.passwds
After the password file is created;
set my_gmail_pwd = <password>
The mail password variable(s) is defined. my_ is a necessary prefix. Now a file whose extension is .gpg is created.
gpg -e -r '<username>' ~/.passwds
shred -xu ~/.passwds
<username> is username which is used in order to create gpg key generation. After these commands create .gpg file, the file must be added into ~/.muttrc file as source.
source "gpg2 -dq ~/.passwds.gpg |"
After that, in .muttrc again,
set imap_pass = $my_gmail_pwd
is set imap (smtp, pop3) password. In conclusion, i don't need write any mail password in muttrc obviously, so i don't take a risk with using mutt :)
In this article, i mention about GPG crytography in order to encrypt mail password for using in mutt. GPG is a general crytography tool.
First of all, i run GPG with username, email and any comment.
gpg --gen-key
This command generates a key with some identical informations. Then, a file which contains mail passwords is created:
nano ~/.passwds
After the password file is created;
set my_gmail_pwd = <password>
The mail password variable(s) is defined. my_ is a necessary prefix. Now a file whose extension is .gpg is created.
gpg -e -r '<username>' ~/.passwds
shred -xu ~/.passwds
<username> is username which is used in order to create gpg key generation. After these commands create .gpg file, the file must be added into ~/.muttrc file as source.
source "gpg2 -dq ~/.passwds.gpg |"
After that, in .muttrc again,
set imap_pass = $my_gmail_pwd
is set imap (smtp, pop3) password. In conclusion, i don't need write any mail password in muttrc obviously, so i don't take a risk with using mutt :)
