On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 07:38:48AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:31:24PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> >
> > The advantage I gain in using fetchmail to download mail is that then
> > I can easily pipe it through procmail... in fact the default exim
> > config does so automagically if you have procmail installed and have a
> > .procmailrc file in your home directory.
>
> The one disadvantage I see from letting fetchmail retrieve is that there
> doesn't seem to be a way for fetchmail to store email passwords on the
> computer using encryption. Perhaps I am wrong (please tell me so) but
> unless you supply your password every time you check for mail, passwords
> are kept in plain text.
!? What's the point of using encryption here? If the code is open
source, then the algorithm cannot be secret; only the encryption key.
Which leaves you with having to enter a decryption key. Back to square
one.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/design-notes.html
[search for "password encryption"]
> That may be fine if your mail account is the only one fetchmail will
> retrieve mail for. But if you have other users who don't want you to
> know there password, you have a problem.
c/there/their/ ?
Problem is easily solved by:
chmod go-w ~
chmod go= ~/.fetchmailrc
which is the way it should be IMHO.
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