Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:55:34PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002.12.15.1428 +0100]:
> > The main reason I switched to this technique was to remove one more
> > cleartext password from my dotfiles. You might find it useful, though.
>
> how does that eliminate the need for a password? only if the server's
> imapd doesn't require a password if the user comes from localhost,
> which strikes me as a bad idea...
Sounds eminently sensible to me. I don't see why I should have to
authenticate to the imapd when I already have access to my account.
Indeed, at least uw-imap does the right thing here.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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