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Ossi Herrala Using OSX Keychain with offlineimap and mutt

Created by Ossi Herrala
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The ~/.muttrc is simple:

set smtp_pass = `security find-internet-password -g -a <account> -s gmail.com -w`
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The ~/.offlineimaprc:

[Account Gmail]
localrepository = Gmail-local
remoterepository = Gmail-remote
autorefresh = 5

[Repository Gmail-local]
type = GmailMaildir
localfolders = ~/Mail/Gmail

[Repository Gmail-remote]
type = Gmail
idlefolders = [ 'INBOX' ]
remoteuser = <account>@gmail.com
remotepasseval = get_keychain_pass(account="<account>", server="gmail.com")


The ~/.offlineimap.py:

import subprocess

def get_keychain_pass(account=None, server=None):
    command = [ '/usr/bin/security', 'find-internet-password', '-g', '-w',
                '-a', account,
                '-s', server ]
    password = subprocess.check_output(command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    return password.strip('\n')

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