Email Security

Email Security

While it is easier to use home.mycroft.ai to set your email username and password, some people would like to be able to not enter their email and password on home.mycroft.ai as they see this as being less secure. To do this, you will use the Mycroft config file.

Tutorial:

This will teach you how to add your email so that you do not have to use home.mycroft.ai to configure the skill with your email and password.

NOTE: This is for technical users.

ssh into your mycroft/picroft or open a terminal in Linux.

Next cd ~/.config/mycroft/email-skill

If the directory email-skill does not exist, create it!

⚠️ Note: The email-skill directory may also be called email-skill.linuss1 or something close to that name. Just use that directory for when email-skill is referred to.

Inside the email-skill directory, if email_conf.yml does not exist, create it!

Delete the contents of email_conf.yml (if any). Then add the following, substituting the values with your own (putting everything in quotes except the port):

username: "your_amazing_username_to_the_email_server"
password: "your_pa$$w0rd"
folder: "folder_name: Usually Inbox"
server_address: "email.you.io"
port: 1234

You now should be done!