From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 30 11:10:25 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 264801065692 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (relay2.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F768FC19 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:10:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.93.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTPSA id 13398161 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:21 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id nBUBALg2090241 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:21 +0600 (OMST) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id nBUBABGT090239 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:11 +0600 (OMST) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:11 +0600 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091230111011.GA90168@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> <20091230101248.GA74666@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091230101248.GA74666@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://vas.tomsk.ru/vas.asc 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 11:10:25 -0000 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? I don't think so. You either have to use Kerberos like I do (mutt supports GSSAPI), or you have to store you password in ~/.mutt/muttrc (see the "imap_pass" directive etc). Yes, in cleartext. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru