Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:42 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091229172642.GA17698@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> 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> <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> 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. Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap server? Without fetchmail? > 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 interesting.. none of this is mentioned in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html -- 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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