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Oops. I forgot to transfer .authinfo to my new computer.I can't send email with until I get it.I, because I don't remember my passwords.I had to resort to visiting gmail.com in , which felt yucky. refused the yuckiness.

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I accidentally had .authinfo in a dotfiles git repo at work. Secret scanning finally noticed and yelled at me. Ooops.

@baron42bba @worldsendless
Now, yes. But that was a little tedious to set up, and I wasn't thinking it through closely when I got my dotfiles stowed and under control.
However version control of dotfiles has saved me significant headaches. Other than the semi-public internal leak.

@Sdowney @worldsendless totally agree on both.
I have my full emacs config including Elpa packages in my repo. If something brakes you can easily roll back to a working state. New laptop? Up to speed within an hour.
As useful as gpg is it requires some research.

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