Passwords on OS X via security

[Paul W. Rankin]

"Paul W. Rankin" <hello at paulwrankin.com> writes:

> The keychain is already unlocked and accessible. Within Keychain
> Access.app, `security` is listed as "Always allow access by these
> applications:". I have the very same line in my ~/.authinfo for using
> smtpmail-send-it to avoid typing a gpg password when sending mail:
>
> machine mail.example.com login userrnkn at example.com password `security
> find-generic-password -s mail.example.com -a user at example.com -w` port
> 465
>
> That works without a hitch (with real values), so I assumed the problem
> has to be in the way offlineimap reads .offlineimaprc

Ah sorry! This does NOT work without a hitch. It does not work at all.
So my issue is with shell argument substitution in general, not with
offlineimap.

But if anyone know how to achieve this...?

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Paul W. Rankin
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