Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Alejandro Jakubi wrote:

> I have found a mention to logging in the section on interfaces of the manual
> of offlineimap:
>
> ===
> NONINTERACTIVE.BASIC
> Noninteractive.Basic is designed for situations in which OffineIMAP will be
> run non-attended and the status of its execution will be logged. You might
> use it, for instance, to have the system run automatically and e-mail you the
> results of the synchronization.This user interface is not capable of reading 
> a
> password from the keyboard; account passwords must be specified using one of
> the configuration file options.
> ===
>
> Apparently, there is a problem here. On the one hand, I need offlineimap 
> to be running in background in the departmental cluster. On the other 
> hand, this noninteractive interface requires to write both account 
> passwords in the configuration file, which is insecure in this case.

Yes.  You could perhaps use SSH keys to connect to your IMAP server.

>
> Is it not possible to run offlineimap in the background and make it 
> prompt for these passwords when it starts? (in fact this is the way that 
> I have imapfilter configured). Does it need python programming?

What does it mean to run it in the background but prompt for passwords 
when it runs?

> Also, is this one the default interface? Ie the interface used when not
> specified in the configuration file or the command line.

(Don't know.)

-- Asheesh.

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