From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 30 10:12:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46A3106566C for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D85B8FC13 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NPvXt-0005cs-GR; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:52 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NPvXs-0000eB-E0; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:48 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBUACmvq074960; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:48 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBUACmQB074959; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:48 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:48 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091230101248.GA74666@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> <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> <20091229172642.GA17698@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091230081651.GA88089@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091230081651.GA88089@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:53 -0000 On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:16:51PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap > > server? Without fetchmail? > > Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky > things with it like > > mutt -f imaps://you@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/somemailbox wow! that's so easy, why didn't I find this before.. thanks a lot for this hint! Is it possible to run it as a daemon, so that I don't have to enter password each time? 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