feat req: Support reading password from file #95

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colemickens · 2020-09-02T07:08:40+03:00

colemickens commented

2020-09-02 07:08:40 +03:00

Hi!

I was going to start working on a meli module for home-manager so that NixOS/Home-Managaer users can have their email accounts setup declaratively.

Due to how Nix works, the configuration files it produces are world readable.

Additionally, I suspect other folks may like to use stow/git/etc to persist their configuration file and may wish to externalize their password in a file that is not committed.

I looked through docs and code and didn't see anything like this already available. Did I miss it? Does it seem like a reasonable feature request?

Thanks, and thanks for Meli!

Hi! I was going to start working on a meli module for [`home-manager`]() so that NixOS/Home-Managaer users can have their email accounts setup declaratively. Due to how Nix works, the configuration files it produces are world readable. Additionally, I suspect other folks may like to use stow/git/etc to persist their configuration file and may wish to externalize their password in a file that is not committed. I looked through docs and code and didn't see anything like this already available. Did I miss it? Does it seem like a reasonable feature request? Thanks, and thanks for Meli!

Manos Pitsidianakis commented

2020-09-02 23:43:22 +03:00

Thank you for your post! There's an option to read the password from a shell command https://meli.delivery/documentation.html#server_password_command for IMAP accounts. This can easily be done for JMAP as well. If you have more questions, shoot