Re: Mutt or KMail
On Monday 26 August 2002 19:20, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 4:32:45PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
i have to say that i didnt follow this tread very long, but since the issue
here is about mutt and kmail, maybe this is a good place to ask ;)
i want to move my mail from Kmail to mutt.
problem is i have more then 2gb of mail in 27 folders in maildir format, and
mutt wil NOT look into 2nd level (or more) sub-folders..
how do i tell mutt to do that ? reading its documentation didnt tell me very
much about it.
tal.
> >> 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.
>
> No problem. I agree with both you and Eric's ideas behind this.
> However for me, that's not the issue. There are end users
> out there that don't want to put there passwords into an ascii file in
> plain text. With all due respect to ESR, the issue isn't whether
> someone with root access can decode an encrypted password. Many people
> refuse to store passwords in plain text on there machine. And they
> refuse to accept the notion that it can't be encrypted when almost every
> email program on the planet can store passwords encrypted, then
> successfully decrypt and send them across a network to retrieve mail. I
> used to work for an ISP in Madison, WI and we didn't store user
> passwords in plain text on our mail server. It wasn't a matter of
> efficiency. It was 1) users wanted encryption. 2) If the mail server
> was ever compromised, a lack of decryption would have made customer
> passwords a little bit easier to collect. Our mailserver wasn't using
> fetchmail in any way, and it wasn't compromised, but the point is the same.
>
> In my humble opinion, it is a feature that many people want. Sometime
> down the road, it is a feature that people will get -- if not in
> fetchmail, then in some other program.
>
> -Bryan
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