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I use Aerc eMail-client on Archlinux.

I have an gmail-account, which I was setting up like this: https://oren.github.io/articles/text-based-gmail/. So I integrated the special password-App.

How can I integrate pass password-manager in my aerc eMail client? So that I don't have to insert plaintext password in my ~/.config/aerc?

The wiki is too cryptic for my level: https://man.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/integrations/password-manager.md#get-password-from-your-password-manager

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DISCLAIMER: I don’t know anything about aerc or secret-tool…

I use a somewhat similar setup with the mutt e-mail client and the pass (a.k.a. password-store) password manager.

As I understand it, you should be able to configure aerc to query password-store with a configuration like:

source-cred-cmd = /usr/bin/pass show [email protected]

Note that you may have to adapt the path to the pass executable and replace [email protected] with the name of the password store that contains you gmail password.

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  • Thanks. I anyway changed to mutt e-mail. Now I am happy.
    – Denis
    Commented Aug 28, 2023 at 15:06

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