From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 16:53:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCD71065670 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080D28FC08 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so8520108ewy.3 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:53:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h0ZUZ3/FfIdru68/PvQamWUn+NCq2gJARKgjfQzpjuU=; b=d6Z31/4n/Tfiq5Rc8vQn8ouEb+nO08fBqZOSMUYBb703Gz3+NN4cLS4rkyhhB81xTq j1NyQ3BdB+vnDkPj+2ou5o94ZNqS4dlSUFygi3rWxORFipvzh2bhOy9eZEeu8UwFAYqn Ym3xrxs91EofjiIJkL6LIW03JBifoV/sZQEHA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Nns6mXHWTtgbwnB0eyJVttjZUQhtCPC9SnuKXLNPD1GfnwuKMmKTalMVEMQd5cbZoG X7l+1Wai9mX3QleGyk3t9Po51L9V/90zOFIGHptglYmamaXU3ay4HucB5OaTzKKQ533l YtddJVM+p6oj+1+BR36ULoezswSRf1tQjNHNU= Received: by 10.216.89.10 with SMTP id b10mr2096920wef.182.1262105609645; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm34956042gvb.17.2009.12.29.08.53.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:53:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091228151553.GA7478@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091228173515.GA27630@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229111150.GA15440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <19257.65081.681654.499622@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091229132209.GC27042@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:42 -0000 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. > So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their > imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably > not very welcome. You probably are wrong, it's more a case of your not using it's full potential. I'm not really sure why you are doing it this way, I do something simailar, but only because I'm interested in spam-filtering. Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server? That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will let you store your server passworks encrypted to a master-password, so even root can't read them. The IMAP server is probably more reliable too. If you want a local copy, or use a client with poor imap support, then offlineimap is pretty good. BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of which are mentioned here: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why