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  1. Get Password from your Password manager

#Get Password from your Password manager

Requires:

  • a password-manager supporting Freedesktop.org Secret Service integration
  • secret-tool (usually provided by libsecret or a similar package)

Tested with:

  • KeePassXC
  1. create the following script:
#!/bin/sh

secret-tool lookup "$1" "$2"
# wait until the password is available
while [ $? != 0 ]; do
	secret-tool lookup "$1" "$2"
done
  1. Edit your accounts.conf to use source-cred-cmd and outgoing-cred-cmd to point to the script.
source-cred-cmd = ~/.config/aerc/scripts/wait-for-creds.sh Title "Mailaccount (Work)"

aerc will now wait for the credentials to become available (for you to unlock you password manager) when starting.

About this wiki

commit c1f77a5a85e93e93e83414244d540eccdd114822
Author: Simon Martin <simon@nasilyan.com>
Date:   2025-06-03T15:02:15+00:00

wiki: improve protonmail configuration instructions

This updates the wiki to mention how I was able to setup the Proton
Bridge on Ubuntu (instructions are different from Arch or Fedora...),
and also improves the sample configuration to avoid such warnings from
the bridge upon mail sending:

```
WARN[Jun  3 16:39:03.678] Message already in sent mailbox addr-id="[...]"
gluon-connector=0 messageID="[...]" pkg=imapservice user-id="[...]"
```

Signed-off-by: Simon Martin <simon@nasilyan.com>
Acked-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
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