Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> 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> <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > 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. You probably are wrong, it's more a case of your not using it's full potential. I'm not really sure why you are doing it this way, I do something simailar, but only because I'm interested in spam-filtering. Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server? That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will let you store your server passworks encrypted to a master-password, so even root can't read them. The IMAP server is probably more reliable too. If you want a local copy, or use a client with poor imap support, then offlineimap is pretty good. BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of which are mentioned here: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
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