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Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage



* Monique Y. Herman (spam@bounceswoosh.org) [031026 12:10]:
> 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.

You're using a plaintext pop password on the wire and you're worried
about some file in your home directory?

good times,
Vineet
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