Documented remotehosteval

From: 
Ben Kibbey

> > Attached is a patch to enable evaluation of account credentials with the
> > remotehosteval, remoteusereval and remotepasseval configuration options.
> > I needed this because rather than change all my other programs
> > configuration settings when I change, say a password, I store them in a
> > file. So I call a function in pythonfile which parses the credential
> > file and returns the wanted info. Not really very well tested, but not
> > complex either. Offlineimap is great, thanks.

[ this is the doc for that patch which was already applied ]
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John Goerzen 2007-10-19 01:00:12 +01:00
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@ -207,6 +207,14 @@ restoreatime = no
type = IMAP
# The following can fetch the account credentials via a python expression that
# is parsed from the pythonfile parameter. For example, a function called
# "getcredentials" that parses a file "filename" and returns the account
# details for "hostname".
# remotehosteval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "hostname")
# remoteusereval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "user")
# remotepasseval = getcredentials("filename", "hostname", "passwd")
# Specify the remote hostname.
remotehost = examplehost