Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:15:53 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091228151553.GA7478@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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I use fetchmail http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html to download all my mail from the Uni mail server to my fbsd box. I typically run it in daemon mode, which requires having my mail server password in plain text in .fetchmailrc I'm a little worried about the security of having my password in plain text on the system. Is there a more secure arrangement that would still allow running fetchmail in daemon mode? Or maybe there is another software solution alltogether? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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