Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 13:31, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 14:11 GMT, Wayne Topa penned:
> >
> > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxxxxxx and set
> > pop_pass=???? to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:// will connect
> > without typeing so much. :-)
> >
> > This works in version 1.5.4-1 (testing) as well....
> >
> > Isn't linux neat!!
>
> Of course, your password will then be in plain-text in a file. If you
> are the only person with root access, this probably isn't a big deal
> until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the
> willies.
But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have
to do is do 'cat ~<foo>/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner-
readable (like .fetchmailrc).
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