Re: [9front] mail crazyness

[William Gunnells <gunnells@gmail.com>]

I agree. I had to read a lot more

I wish we had more docs on this and the factotum thing. Honestly its a lot to read. So I have mail working again

Here is where I am. I have some script that checks the smtp/imap keys I have created in $home/lib/fact.keys

When I run this script it populates the keys into /mnt/factotum/ctl. So I’m happy about that

However it does not work in profile. I really don’t understand that

here is what I have 

after auth/factotum

I think before webfs
if(test -f $home/lib/fact.keys
    auth/aescbc -d < $home/lib/fact.keys | read -m >/mnt/factotum/ctl

I can run it manually but it does not work in profile

Yea this whole thing is very different
do I really put my password in profile? That’s interesting because I notice that when I run my ipso script manual
rc key_script it does ask me for a password



> On Jul 26, 2020, at 1:01 PM, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 
> Right now, it doesn't sound like you're understanding what you're trying to do.
> 
>> It seems like /mnt/factotum/ctl has two entries,  one with full email
>> including the @ symbol and one without the @ symbol. Seems kind of
>> redundant. Why run the echo statement in the first place. 
> 
> You didn't need to -- the one you echoed didn't work as the login, so
> factotum promted for the one that did.
> 
>> i need to mount this file or open this file
>> echo open /imaps/imap.gmail.com/thinktankworkspaces mbox >/mail/fs/ctl
>> Still not sure if I need the @ symbol or not. But guess what I get an
>> error permission denied or its busy or whatever
> 
> The echo is only needed if you ran `upas/fs -n`. I use that
> so I can put the upas command into my profile, and not wait
> for it to try loading the mailbox. On slow networks the sync
> can take a long time. If I put the upas command in my profile,
> it's available for all windows.
> 
> If you don't use `-n`, then you don't need the echo. You're
> already done.
> 
> So, right now, half the stuff you're mentioning is just
> not needed.
> 
> So, if you have factotum in your profile, all you need
> is:
> 
> 	upas/fs -f /imaps/imap-server/username
> 	(enter password)
> 	acme
> 	(type Mail, middle click on it)
> 
> and you should be done.
>