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Settings specific to accounts (e.g. IMAP configuration) are stored in {{Path|$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf}} which should only be readable and writable by the owning user (permissions <code>600</code>) as it may store sensitive data like passwords in clear text. | Settings specific to accounts (e.g. IMAP configuration) are stored in {{Path|$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf}} which should only be readable and writable by the owning user (permissions <code>600</code>) as it may store sensitive data like passwords in clear text. | ||
An example account configration using [[Msmtp|msmtp]] for sending email and [[Mbsync|mbsync]] could look like this: | An example account configration using [[Msmtp|msmtp]] for sending email and [[Mbsync|mbsync]] for fetching email to a local maildirpp store could look like this: | ||
{{Cat|$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf|<nowiki>[primary] | {{Cat|$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf|<nowiki>[primary] | ||
Revision as of 19:35, 17 July 2023
aerc is a terminal email client (MUA) originally written by ~sircmpwn and now maintained by ~rjarry. It supports multiple accounts, mail synchronisation, GPG integration and more.
Installation
aerc is available in the Community repository.
# apk add aerc
Configuration
Configuration for aerc is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc, with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME falling back to ~/.config if it is unset.
Settings specific to accounts (e.g. IMAP configuration) are stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf which should only be readable and writable by the owning user (permissions 600) as it may store sensitive data like passwords in clear text.
An example account configration using msmtp for sending email and mbsync for fetching email to a local maildirpp store could look like this:
Contents of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aerc/accounts.conf
The full configuration file format reference can be found in aerc-accounts(5).