Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091229132209.GC27042@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20091228151553.GA7478@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091228173515.GA27630@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229111150.GA15440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <19257.65081.681654.499622@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091229132209.GC27042@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > U.S. oriented to the home user - rarely do, It's a non-trivial > > amount of work to get working and then monitor for correct behavior > > and possible breaches. > > Agreed. Which is exactly why I like xs4all so much. :-) They do provide these > kinds of services. > > But I would expect a university network (which I understand what the OP is > talking about) to offer something more sophisticated than plain POP3. I would > expect at least bSMTP. Bristol seems to have a computer science > department. That's at least a pool of warm bodies to train as sysadmins. :-P it doesn't work like that.. I think it's an imap server. Anyway, I'm trying to get in touch with them. One of the problems is that the Uni are trying to implement a system where mail is never downloaded from the main mail servers at all. At least this is what I gather. So when users launch their mulberry (a typical Uni mail client) they connect to the mail servers, read and reply and whatever, but the data is just viewed on PCs and not stored there. I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably not very welcome. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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