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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:37:17 -0500
From:      Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fetchmail and plain text password
Message-ID:  <20091229123717.34c2f7d9@scorpio.seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com>
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> <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000
RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> articulated:

>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

That "article" is grossly out of date. Furthermore, D. J. Bernstein
created an MTA that was a back-scatters dream. Then, he abandoned it.

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Jerry
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