jay-to-the-dee / muttrc

My mutt configuration.

muttrc

As I don't like the way mutt manage mutliple mailboxes, I launch one mutt per mailbox and use shell aliases to link configuration files to commands. Each mailbox has its own configuration file for specific configuration (like IMAP and SMTP parameters) that source the common configuration file common.muttrc.

Mailboxes configuration files source a GPG encrypted file that store the password in the format: set my_pass=XXXX.

GPG configuration

For not having to input the GPG passphrase each time mutt is started, I configured gpg-agent to cache unlocked keys for one day and use keychain to unlock the passphrase at boot (like the SSH key).

+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ vim .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
# Force passphrase to be asked in console.
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty

# Update cache ttl (1 day so it should live a session).
default-cache-ttl 86400
max-cache-ttl 86400

+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ gpg -k
/home/francois/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------------
pub   rsa2048 2017-09-13 [SC] [expires: 2019-09-13]
      XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
uid           [ unknown] Francois Menabe <[e-mail]>
sub   rsa2048 2017-09-13 [E] [expires: 2019-09-13]

+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ vim .bashrc
...
# Unlock SSH private key.
eval $(keychain --eval --agents ssh -Q --quiet --nogui id_rsa)
# Unlock GPG key.
eval $(keychain --eval --agents gpg -Q --quiet --nogui XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
...

+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ vim .mutt/unistra
set my_pass = "xxxx"
+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ gpg -r [e-mail] -e .mutt/unistra
# it generate encrypted file .mutt/unistra.gpg
+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ shred .mutt/unistra
+[=100% (83.45%)] [01:20] francois@zen:~ ¤ rm .mutt/unistra

# Same commands for generating gmail password variable.

Unistra address book

The mutt_ldap.py Python3 script allows to query Unistra address book LDAP server. As password is already crypted by GPG, this script use python-gnupg password to retrieve it. So the dependencies for this script are:

• python-pyldap (Python3 binding to libldap)
• python-gnupg

Deployment

A simple Makefile has been created that copy all the files to .mutt directory.

+[=100% (83.45%)] [18:13] francois@zen:muttrc ¤ make
mkdir -p ~/.mutt
cp common.muttrc unistra.muttrc gmail.muttrc mutt-colors-solarized-light-256.muttrc vimrc signature mailcap mutt_ldap.py ~/.mutt
mkdir -p ~/.cache/mutt
mkdir -p ~/.cache/mutt/unistra
mkdir -p ~/.cache/mutt/gmail