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Lorenzo c865dcc03c Script to store passwords in a file with GPG or using OSX's secure keychain Submitted-by: https://github.com/lorenzog Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>		2018-06-10 14:21:01 +02:00
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README.md	Script to store passwords in a file with GPG or using OSX's secure keychain	2018-06-10 14:21:01 +02:00
gpg-pw.py	Script to store passwords in a file with GPG or using OSX's secure keychain	2018-06-10 14:21:01 +02:00
offlineimaprc.sample	Script to store passwords in a file with GPG or using OSX's secure keychain	2018-06-10 14:21:01 +02:00
passwords-gmail.txt	Script to store passwords in a file with GPG or using OSX's secure keychain	2018-06-10 14:21:01 +02:00

gpg-offlineimap

Python bindings for offlineimap to use gpg instead of storing cleartext passwords

Author: Lorenzo G. GitHub

Quickstart

Requirements: a working GPG set-up. Ideally with gpg-agent. Should work out of the box on most modern Linux desktop environments.

Enable IMAP in gmail (if you have two factor authentication, you need to create an app-specific password)
Create a directory ~/Mail
In ~/Mail, create a password file passwords-gmail.txt. Format: account@gmail.com password. Look at the example file in this directory.
ENCRYPT the file: gpg -e passwords-gmail.txt. It should create a file passwords-gmail.txt.gpg. Check you can decrypt it: gpg -d passwords-gmail.txt.gpg: it will ask you for your GPG password and show it to you.
Use the file offlineimaprc.sample as a sample for your own .offlineimaprc; edit it by following the comments. Minimal items to configure: the remoteuser field and the pythonfile parameter pointing at the offlineimap.py file in this directory.
Run it: offlineimap. It should ask you for your GPG passphrase to decrypt the password file.
If all works well, delete the cleartext password file.