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Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password
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Anton Shterenlikht writes:
>  > I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over 
>  > the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
>  > your mailserver allows it. 
>  
>  it looks like it doesn't allow ssl.

	It is my understanding ISPs - at least those in the
U.S. oriented to the home user - rarely do,  It's a non-trivial
amount of work to get working and then monitor for correct behavior
and possible breaches.


					Robert Huff